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Checking in! I went to work friday morning, knowing it would be a bad drive home, but it was supposed to be almost done by 2pm. And I figured, since work ends at 4:30 by then at least the main roads would be clear.
Nope. Noon. The bosses try to go home for lunch and can’t. So they plow out the driveway, and send us home at 1:30. The main highway was bad. The side roads were impassable. My usual route home is ALL side roads. So I decided to go the long way, take the highway and then down a secondary road. (Not a highway, but paved at least).
It was whiteout and the signs were partly covered, and I had to go so slow I got disoriented, and turned onto the wrong road. By the time I realized it was a freak’in side road and hadn’t been plowed, it was much too late. We’re talking in the deep country, there wasn’t any houses or driveways. Nobody had driven the road before me. It was FLAT I couldn’t even tell where the road stopped and the ditches began.
I don’t even have winter tires!
I just set a straight line, and kept going. Hitting drifts so bad it swept up over the car, I couldnt’ see anything. Nothing. Totally blind. I just kept figuring I would keep going – I had to. If I had stopped or gone in the ditch, the car would have been buried and it would have been days before I was found. I figured I would eventually ditch the car, I couldn’t see so I thought I was for sure going to feel the tires go over the edge.
Kept plugging on.
Got to another side road that I knew. That one at least someone had been down before me. At that point, I was within sight of the house, but still had about a kilometer to go. Kept going and going and it felt like forever. Breezed through two stop signs – I was NOT for stopping, if I had, the car would never have got going. (High engine strength does very badly in the snow! The tires just spinnnnn).
Anyway. Got home, got a good running start at the driveway, and slid into the driveway. Again, it was all flat snow, but we have marker sticks at the sides so I had an idea where to aim… Got into the driveway, and was stuck there. It was too deep to go any further.
Left the car there, went into the house. I was actually trembling. I haven’t trembled with fear… ever. I was so bloody scared I was going to crash and freeze to death on that side road and not be found. It was bad. It was BAD. I’ve driven eight hours from nothern ontario in a blizzard and it wasn’t that bad.
This morning, I went out and dug out the car. It was wedged on snow so deep I had to dig under the car to get it to move, the tires weren’t getting traction because it was actually perched on top of the snow! Then went around and dug out the barn so we could feed and water the animals, and dug paths around the farm to all the outdoor pens. Everybody is loving it, it’s all cozy and warm under a deep snow blanket.
Next time we get a winter warning, I am staying home for the day. Totally not worth it! I didn’t think I would have an excuse for staying home for snow days since we moved, and are now only 5 minutes from work… but I tell you what. Five minutes on side roads when the snow is that deep trumps any time on highway. At least on highways, even if it isn’t plowed, at least you have tire-marks to stay on!
Wow – glad you are OK! Knowing that you have to keep driving, and praying that you don’t get stuck, is a HORRIBLE feeling.
Oh My Gaaaawwwd…. this storm has been AWFUL!!! It hurts to type >_<
We lost power lastnight around 7:30 pm and for it back 14 hours later. No heat, no hot water, no electricity… it was torture! It would have been 10 times better if we had heat. This morning it was 42 degrees inside the house, but at 9:30 this morning we were back up and running and I was hugging the cast iron baseboard like a baby sloth! LOL!
The worst part was the shoveling. I started at 6am ( I was supposed to be at work at 8:30 and gave myself and hour and a half to snow not knowing I was going to wake up to THIS!!!
My dog was like … um… were do I pee now?
All our buried cars
Crazy snow drifts
The shoveling process begins
Shauns Car was like a dark cave!
Shoveled till the sun was setting!
Random shots around the house
My bay window!
Wind chimes
Look at the top of the garage!
This was my refrigerator for a while too, LOL
SO GLAD THIS IS OVER!!! NOW I NEVER WANT TO SEE SNOW AGAIN!
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