Car stuck in snow! Ideas and suggestions? - Page 2

Originally Posted by Seluv

Okay, massive winter blizzard hit upper midwest United Sates. Started snowing last night with "thunder snow" around midnight and didn't finally stop until middle of afternoon! Have never had to drive in this much snow! Use to living a bit further south. Landlord called and said a snow plow would be coming overnight to plow driveway and parking area and said all cars need to be moved. I had parked in an alleyway right next to south end of building and out of the "wind tunnel" so I didn't have any massive drift to dig vehicle out of as others did. Backed into intersection of north south street behind me where again the south east corner of building prevented massive snowdrift. Entered set of track made by another vehicle earlier sometime around noon. Proceeded south to end of residential street and had to turn either left or right. Didn't see anything coming from so proceeded to swing a wide left turn, which I figured would be easier than a sharp right. Stayed in lone set of tire tracks along poorly plouged residential street, for only a few seconds before momentum of turn propelled car to slide out of tracks, off to the right, and directly into snow bank and drift. Now I can only get the tires to spin!

Street gutter's slope and grade sufficiently prohibit backing out back into into existing tracks and going forward, I'll only be digging into deeper snow. High school kid wondering by tried to push, but by himself alone was no help. Came back inside to get shovel and warm up before going out to scoop, and dig!

Any good ideas on how to get car out?