Parking in the Yard?

Unfortunately we were unable to attend our church's Christmas service this evening! We were all set to go and left the house early (our church is enormous and the childcare area fills up quickly over the holidays), but we were thwarted by some crazy weather. We had a lot of freezing rain that caused our driveway and neighborhood streets to be just like a skating rink. We thought that the minivan would be heavy enough to gain some traction, but we found out very quickly that we were mistaken. We managed to get down our driveway, and I had very little traction driving the van along our street toward the exit from our neighborhood. We saw several other "distressed" vehicles that were unable to steer and were sliding all over the place. We decided that the conditions were too dangerous to make the trek to church, so we circled back around to return to our house. Along the way we saw a car up in someone's yard which we thought was odd at that moment (but understood later) and also a van that could not get traction on a driveway that had a very minimal grade. They spun their wheels for over 5-10 minutes trying to get up the driveway. As I approached our driveway, I found that I could not get up the tiny slope at the base of our drive. Our Grand Prix was parked in the driveway and we didn't want to risk hitting it, so we decided to try driving across the yard to get to the garage. We managed traction in the grass, but as soon as the front wheels hit the driveway, we had no traction at all. We decided to leave the van in the front yard until the ice melted rather than risk hitting one of our other cars in the driveway or someone sliding into it on the street. It looked pretty silly to have the minivan in the middle of the front yard, and I meant to get a picture of it, but within 5 or 6 hours the temperature had risen enough that Dan was able to get the van in the garage before I took the photo.