After the Blizzard, I stayed in Rock Springs Wy for two days to wait out the storm completely. I probably could have made it to Utah the following day, but I didn’t want to take any chances. After the storm cleared up, I was off! Well…almost. I planned on leaving early, I woke up at 530, walked the dog got ready, and by 6am I was good to go…But my Tesla was not. I turned on the heaters and put them in full blast in the Tesla, while I was getting ready, but I think I needed to wait longer than that. When I got to the car it was still partially covered in ice, the door handles were stuck. I was able to gently pick away the ice with a pocket knife, and got the door to open…kind of. The window was not able to roll down but the door was able to somehow open up, I loaded up the car and when I tried to close the door it would not close! the window got stuck and wouldn’t roll down. After about 30 / 45 min of more waiting and de-thawing, I was finally able to push the window down (with my hand) and close the door. Next item on the list was charging up the car.

Charging the car proved to be challenging as well. This was a few weeks for the update to warm up the battery in cold conditions was sent out. So when I reached the super charger and tried to charge up…it was charging at around 20 -40 kW (usually around 90-120). I was able to kill some time, but i ended up waiting there for nearly 2 hours. Once I charged up, i loaded up and head out towards Salt Lake City.

The drive to Salt Lake City was breath taking. The storm had just passed so you could see the mountains beginning to clear up, but they were still coated in fresh snow. After a very scenic 4.5 hours I was in Salt Lake City.

Once I reached Salt Lake City it was smooth sailing from there on out. I grab lunch, picked up my brother and headed to St. George. The drive was smooth and scenic, spent a night in St. George and made it California the next day in one piece! (SLC to California was fairly smooth sailing, nothing too exciting, but if you want more details regarding that portion of the trip let me know!)