I'm like Legolas on the snow
Feb. 14th, 2007 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muck_a_luckDude. It is weird out there. The precipitation has stopped, so I thought, Hey! I'll go out and clear off the car so that if they ever plow the driveway, I can maybe go to work! I even had insane hopes that I might be able to just drive out. My neighbors did. Though I realize now that everybody who just drove out had four-wheel drive.
1. There were white piles of something on the stoop and steps. I figured snow, but I stepped out onto it. Nope. Big giant piles of ice. I didn't even sink down! And I was carrying the baby seat, making me at least 30 pounds heavier. So me and baby and baby seat, probably a total of nearly 200 pounds, did not sink. Like I said. Dude.
But then I did kind of dent the ice/snow, so I had enough traction to feel confident to get down the couple of steps to the sidewalk. But when I stopped *trying* to do that, I just kind of walked on top of the snow like I used to when I was a kid and weighed 40 pounds, not 170 or whatever I weigh now.
2. I'd say it's about 5 inches deep.
3. I got the car about half cleared before I said the heck with this. I'll finish it when they scrape the drive. I mostly did it at all because the baby was cranking and Husband was trying to sleep, so I bundled her up toasty in her car seat and coat and a couple of blankets. I did accomplish getting the baby to nap. And the car is half cleared, and it does appear that the freezing rain is over, so it won't come back and just ice the car again. It's weird. Ice sheet on the bottom, fluffy snow layer in the middle, super huge armor of ice over the top. Very difficult to get off, though not as bad as just a pure sheet of ice. I know that because the side windows had just the pure sheet of ice. Grrr. I need side window defrosters.
4. My neighbor was trying to drive out in his non-four-wheel drive vehicle. He was able to back out of his space and get stuck in the middle of the road, then with much effort get his car back in the space.
Like I said, I may go to work of they get a plow in here.
1. There were white piles of something on the stoop and steps. I figured snow, but I stepped out onto it. Nope. Big giant piles of ice. I didn't even sink down! And I was carrying the baby seat, making me at least 30 pounds heavier. So me and baby and baby seat, probably a total of nearly 200 pounds, did not sink. Like I said. Dude.
But then I did kind of dent the ice/snow, so I had enough traction to feel confident to get down the couple of steps to the sidewalk. But when I stopped *trying* to do that, I just kind of walked on top of the snow like I used to when I was a kid and weighed 40 pounds, not 170 or whatever I weigh now.
2. I'd say it's about 5 inches deep.
3. I got the car about half cleared before I said the heck with this. I'll finish it when they scrape the drive. I mostly did it at all because the baby was cranking and Husband was trying to sleep, so I bundled her up toasty in her car seat and coat and a couple of blankets. I did accomplish getting the baby to nap. And the car is half cleared, and it does appear that the freezing rain is over, so it won't come back and just ice the car again. It's weird. Ice sheet on the bottom, fluffy snow layer in the middle, super huge armor of ice over the top. Very difficult to get off, though not as bad as just a pure sheet of ice. I know that because the side windows had just the pure sheet of ice. Grrr. I need side window defrosters.
4. My neighbor was trying to drive out in his non-four-wheel drive vehicle. He was able to back out of his space and get stuck in the middle of the road, then with much effort get his car back in the space.
Like I said, I may go to work of they get a plow in here.
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Date: 2007-02-14 02:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-14 03:20 pm (UTC)I didn't have anything that exotic today. Just a snowdrift the size of Deluth between me and my garage door. *facepalm*
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Date: 2007-02-14 06:23 pm (UTC)*Ducks*
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Date: 2007-02-14 07:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-14 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-14 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-15 02:41 pm (UTC)*glowers*
Still, I believe I would rather have our three nasty winter days every year, than have your 100 days over 100...
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Date: 2007-02-14 06:44 pm (UTC)when you could be home writing porn?no subject
Date: 2007-02-15 02:39 pm (UTC)Not "that snot thing" which was what I just typed... :D
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Date: 2007-02-15 06:07 pm (UTC)