What happens if you get stuck in the snow for 10 hours

[Prof1967]

OK the following is for Tesla but it indicates that if you were to get stuck for an extended period of time and you have a decent charge you do not need to worry about your battery going flat.

 

[jamesie]

I've been driving for 45 years and have only ever been stuck in frozen traffic....errrr.....never!

 

[Prof1967]

We don't get weather that severe in the UK.

The closest I've come is having to drive 15 miles home from Cardiff in heavy snow about 15 years ago. The snow was that heavy that the cars were nose to tail and at a crawl which meant that a journey which would normally take 30 minutes took 4 hours.

Only other time was 30 years ago when I worked in Bristol. Woke up one morning with snow falling. Started my 15 mile journey to work and after 2 hours was only half way there. The police were actually telling people to turn around and go home as all roads into Bristol were gridlocked.

So that's twice in 30 years.

 

[Archev]

I've been driving for 45 years and have only ever been stuck in frozen traffic....errrr.....never!

30 odd years ago we were travelling from around Inverness / Tain area back home. All roads south were impassable or extremely difficult. We struggled down the A96 through the Glens of Foundland and very slowly into Aberdeen intending to come down the A90 to home. We got on fairly well until we got on to the Forfar bypass and stopped behind a wall of mostly trucks. Those in front of them could not get up the modest incline due to the heavy falling snow. Very soon we were built in front and rear and the snow by then was well above sill level of our Austin Maestro turbo diesel ( one of the very last ones off the production line - superb car and brilliant in adverse conditions- but couldn’t get past the trucks that night)
We sat in the car until the following afternoon when police and local farmers etc with 4x4s started reaching the stuck drivers and took everyone to Forfar Academy where over 100 souls spent the next day on the gym floor until the gritters and diggers could clear things up a bit and then lead everyone in a motorised snake down through Dundee and over the Tay bridge - the only roads known to be passable.
They looked after us really well at the Academy and a local Bakery supplied mountains of the famous Forfar Bridies ( a sort of Cornish Pastie type of meat and onion turn over / pie for those not familiar with them). They were available for breakfast, lunch, dinner and any time in between with gallons of tea and coffee. We sincerely hope never to encounter Bridies again. We kept that wonderful Maestro for many years.

 

[Deleted member 6627]

It once took me 7 hours to drive 30 miles back home due to snow. Annoyed me so much that I moved home.

That wasn't as bad as spending the night out due to floods. Thankfully a very kind couple gave me a bed for the night saving me from sleeping in the car.

 

[Prof1967]

We did have one winter when I was about 10 years old so maybe 1977/78.

The snow overnight had been that heavy it was above the bumpers. Most of the dads in the street and the kids were out digging the snow from around the cars and up to the top of the road. All apart from one neighbour who had walked to the newsagents to pick up his paper.

When he came back the other dads asked if he was going to help but he was more interested in going inside and having a coffee.

So the other dads just left the snow piled around his car. He didn't look very happy later when he had to dig his car out with no help.

 

[smokie]

I once got caught around Bracknell ring road and along the road to Wokingham (i.e. not in far north countryside) for about 6 hours one time, due to a sudden heavy snowstorm in the late afternoon. Took me that long to do about 4 miles.