Yes this is a road.

If you look you can see the headlights of an oncoming car. This is the reason I turned back before reaching canada. Except worse. Up further the winds were so strong that the roads were drifted with snow wherever there weren't trees, which as you get closer to the lake is pretty much everywhere. And the drifts were several inches. The winds could make the car slide slightly sideways.

So this is NOT the bad area.This is on the way to hendersonville harbor. It was really a peice of cake to drive in, especially compared with up north. The drifts were spaced by dry road, and there were lots of plows out. Funny though, I could not tell that they had scraped it covered over so quickly. These drifts were nothing to drive through, they just looked bad. The snow was just an inch at most and very dry. You can't tell in this photo, but it was just gusting around. The winds were much calmer down here.