Icy? Be safe

Yesterday I was driving with my Dad to the ski hill with a trailer and it was looking like it would be a nice day after all. Around noon it got cloudy and wet snow started to fall, which later turned to rain making everything slushy, Welcome to the East Coast. We packed up and left around 3 in order to load my Dad's friends car(which he needed to get down the hill in order to get onto the 18 wheeler to be sold to a guy out west) onto the trailer which was at his winter home. We barely make it up the last hill because the road was slushy and there were ice patches. My dad, my friend, and I load this monster Porsche 944 with a corvette engine set up for racing(completely gutted and modified, 400hp or so) onto the trailer once we get to the house and get set to go. My dad starts to drive down the hill and everything has turned to ice in the past hour. We fishtail on every corner with the trailer sliding closer and closer to the ditch on each side, luckily my dad has amazing reaction from driving himself and was able to counter-steer and get everything in line quickly and without hesitation. We make it to the end of the road and my friend says "You are quite the character." to my dad and just as that happens we approach the stop sign which my Dad had already been slowing down for. He was modulating the breaks in order to prevent them from locking up, even though we continued to slide across this road that was slicker than a guido covered in tanning oil. We were moving over the ice at about 3 m.p.h. when we reached the edge of the road and proceeded to drop 15 feet to which the front end of the truck was resting on some ice before it cracked and we dropped a couple more inches. The car was at such an angle that I could open the door and it was almost parallel with the road above us. We jumped out and took a look at the damage, front of the car submerged into this shallow brook, still holding the trailer on the hitch. We walked down the road to find some help and unfortunately no one was home. We saw a light coming down the road and waved them off, to find out that it was an off-duty police officer. 3 hours later and the car was pulled off of the covert pipe it was resting on and up on the tow truck with a hole in the gas tank and a flat tire. The tow truck driver said a foot or 2 more and the car would've flipped and the trailer would have crushed us all. So when its icy if you have studs/chains or not, be careful it can be more out of hand than anyone can ever expect.

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