My wife raves about the '97 with the Blizzak's on it. I haven't driven it much with them in the deep snow. Mostly just packed snow and ice. Our house is 8-10 miles from the lake so we get hammered no matter what. I've been doing nothing but shoveling when I get home from work every night since last Saturday or Sunday.
Biggest issue is usually not ice or snow, you can always adjust your driving to accommodate no traction, but lack of visibility. That was the main driver behind the 100 car pile up here on Monday. It's hard to describe the feeling when you are driving and suddenly you cannot see anything past the body of your car. I'm no tough guy, but the only time I've been scared driving a car was going to work about 30 years ago. The place where I worked was right on the lakeshore and the highway there followed the lakeshore. Between two towns on the highway in the middle of nowhere and it was like somebody dropped a white box over my car. Do you stop? If so where? You could be right in the middle of the highway for all you know. If you stop there is a good chance somebody will hit you from behind. Do you keep going? You have absolutely no references to tell you where you are. You could be headed straight into the ditch. In the end, I kept going at about 20mph until I was through it. That was a long drive.
