Black Ice

Deb and I had the fun of experiencing black ice today. If you don't know what that is you are lucky. We were trying to enter an on-ramp and the turn went right and our truck decided to keep going straight--across a median and down into a ditch.



Called AAA and they said it would be 5 hours before anyone would get out to us. The interstates had all been closed down from one Illinois to Michigan and we were late meeting my family to go into Chicago.



So using a blanket, a reusable grocery bag from HEB, and Deb behind the wheel I was able to push the truck across the frozen median, up out of the ditch, and onto the road again.



The picture of the open area is where we ended up. The interstate sign on the right of the picture is where we stared to slide and you can just see the tracks where we stopped towards the middle of the picture.