DeezPanthers1 wrote:
We also don't want to add a week to our drive time, bc of my fear. Do any of you have any good routes, or ideas that we could do.
This is NOT an unrealistic fear; it is a logical assessment of the risk involved.
But you can't have your cake and eat it too. Avoiding potentially bad weather IS going to add some travel time and that is a GOOD thing to do.
I suggest that you drop down to the LA area and take I-40 all the way across. Even then, freak storms can occur and I STRONGLY encourage you not to take unnecessary risks just because of a "schedule". Leave a few extra days slack incase the east coast is iced in once you get there.