Ideas desperately needed

[morgaina]

I have decided to avoid the Christmas Rush and get started on my worrying now:

Oldest son & DIL are flying into Seattle just before Christmas. Then they will pick up dancing_guru, rent a car, and drive to Moscow. This will be just a few days before Christmas.
When dancing_guru contacted the rental car companies they told her they do not allow chains to be put on their cars and do not have snow tires available for their rentals either. The company said All-weathers should be fine, FOR OVER THE PASSES, ARE THEY INSANE? ARE THEY STUPID?

Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this dilemma?

Comments

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

The gorge is my choice.

But I don't get a vote :-(
All I can do is lobby.

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

it will be fine, mom :)

really, if its snowing hard enough/icky enough to make it hard going, you're going so slow that wiping out consists of a slow and "oh my gosh, we're sliding and there's nothing we can do" kind of slide into a ditch. and then they whip out their cells, call 911 and wait for the cavalry.

be sure there's blankets, water and food in the car (hand warmers, etc are good too) so that if the cavalry is poky they arent too uncomfortable and they'll be fine :). they'll be on a MAJOR highway, in daylight hours.

personally? I think the pass is safer in the snow than it is some other times (like in a big rainstorm, after dark, with people coming home from the applecup or some such)

but then I might be a crazy WSU grad who learned to drive in the stuff early, never had front wheel drive and while she had chains, didnt want to bother with them, so just dealt with it :). only ended up in the ditch twice, and both times was quickly rescued and got a good story out of it!

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

And it's not like they were driving over the Donner Pass on their way to Estrella ;-)

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

exaaaaaactly :)

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

exaaaaaactly :)