@Jylly18:
The book is "Little House in the Big Woods" right? I loved those books as a kid, I have the whole collection somewhere…I read them over and over...good thing you aren't here in eastern WI today, we got over a foot of snow!
Yes, you get the other half of the extra credit. 
I got the first six inches of your snow before I pulled out this morning. I stayed in blowing snow and high wind until most of the way through Illinois. It was blowing and icing across the road so much I couldn't see the road through the blowing snow in many places. It reminded me very much of driving across Wyoming.
I had two close calls today: first one at the north end of the Chicago I-94 tollway when a pickup was trying to race me to the end of the cash lane after he paid when I was in the Prepass lane already doing highway speed. He spun out at the end of the cash lane "git-on" and missed my trailer by about a foot. The second one was about 75 miles south on I-55 when one car tried to pass another car and ended up sliding across from the "hammer" lane clear over to the right shoulder. He ended up 35 feet up the embankment facing the wrong way. He's lucky he didn't flip his car. People get in such a big hurry, even in slippery stuff, and think they can go faster than trucks in it. Then when they wreck, the excuse is usually, "That truck made me pass…it was going too slow!" Can I insert the good ol' American word "DUH" here?
(that doesn't include me.. in the young person catagory...)
