Made a trip over to the Lake Huron side of the peninsula yesterday for a dinner with my wife's family. When we left it was around zero and misty; when we set out for home a few hours later it was blowing snow with poor visibility on icy roads.

Near Southampton, I touched the brakes lightly and went directly into a skid at about 50 km/hour. I had a hot chocolate in my right hand, so I was driving with just only my left, trying to make just enough adjustment to bring the van back under control on the ice. There was oncoming traffic and a car in front of us as I drifted first left, then right a bit worse, reaching the point where one more swerve means a 360 and a total loss of control entirely. Fortunately, I was able to stabilize the drifting and avoid what could have been a nasty accident.

Sometimes it pays to have grown up driving on snow-covered Northern Ontario roads.