Deep snow and cvt + very bad!!

[rwb]

On my drive home tonight, we had 8" of snow fall and I had to turn off my tcs just to get moving. After several miles of wheels spinning the engine just quit revving up and I didn't have any power. The Cube just made a popping noise. I shut it off and restarted it and all was well again for several more miles. It got so bad that everytime I had to stop I shut the engine off. Stupid Snow......
 Any ideas as to what is going on. The car runs correctly now so hopefully it will keep going until I take it into the dealer and have them check it out.
Oh and by the way my abs light is now constantly on but I don't get any check engine codes.

[rwb]

After I was able to drive the box on dry roads the abs/tcs lights went off and the box seems fine. Of course they are saying that we might get another 8 to 15 inches of snow on Monday/Tuesday so I will see if it has the same problems again. By the way driving home in the heavy snow I used 6 gallons of fuel since I just filled up before work that morning.

[D3stro]

Which tires do you got on? Winter tires I assume.

[rwb]

Nope just the stock ones which suck in the snow. Keeping in mind that over the last few years we haven't had more than a couple of inches fall at once, unlike the 8 to 12 inches that fell in just a few hours.