Finally Made It To SC - 03 Mar 2026
Robin and I left Detroit yesterday morning (Monday) at 6:15 am to drive to Georgetown, SC to visit Jack and Janet Volker for the week. Our plan was to drive to WV, stay the night, then drive the remaining distance to SC on Tuesday. Things didn't quite work out as we'd expected... We left the house early under clear skies and mild temperatures. Driving I-75 S through Ohio we reached Findlay and saw the first "unfrozen" ponds. We then took US-23 S to I-71 S through Columbus, and that's where trouble ensued. Just north of Columbus an overnight "blizzard" dumped 2" of snow and ice on the road so traffic slowed to a crawl (20mph) for over an hour. A look at the weather map showed a major ice/rain storm extending east to WV that we were just entering. Had we stayed on I-71 we'd be driving in the storm for the next 6 hours. We decided to jump back on I-75 and take it south through KY into TN and NC and stay the night in Asheville. The drive through KY...
