SCREEEECH!.......WHIIRRRRR!!..............SHHHHLLPSSLSLLSHH.......GGRRRR!!!....thump!
Yes ladies and gentlemen, these are the sounds of a vehicle getting stuck in a snow drift. I have never had the unique pleasure of getting jammed in a snow drift....until yesterday that is, when I was talented enough to firmly adhere not one, but TWO automobiles to one road!
Here is how it happened:
Kaitlyn and I were on our way home from work in our fifteen passenger van and the main roads were fine and dandy. But the back roads were another story!
We hit the first line of drifts and slipped back and forth...finally making it through.
Kaitlyn: hehehe! that was funny!
Jack: We made it through ok didn't we? wow! not bad for my first time driving in deep snow! (No ego here can you tell?)
Kaitlyn: Here comes more!
Jack: I think we will make it!
Van: SCREEEECH...wump..
Jack: I think we are stuck....
Kaitlyn: Try backing it up!
Jack: OK, that worked....uh oh, here comes some even deeper drifts!
Kaitlyn: hehehe!
Jack: Stop laughing! It throws off my concentration!
Kaitlyn: hehe,..sorry!
Jack: Kaitlyn! Shh!
Van: WUMP......shhhhhhhlwhhhhirrrr!...wump!
Kaitlyn: Oh dear, now we really are stuck!
Jack: hehe!
I proceeded to chalk that one up as experience and run home the last mile and a half to grab my mini van and a shovel to get us out.
As I jogged away from our firmly planted van, I couldn't help but think of the irony of this situation. For those of you who don't know what our road looks like...it is an overgrown sidewalk...one lane only! And our van was now positioned sideways across it so that no one could pass our ill fated roadblock!
I got home, sweating to beat the band from my heavy winter coat and grabbed my mini van and shovel.
Taking off from our house, I pick up enough speed to get through some drifts and WUMP! I go my minivan stuck a half-a-mile from our house!. BTW, as I was jogging back to our house to get my van...I met our neighbor, whose car was also stuck in the road! When I looked down the road to see if any help was coming in the form of a snow plow...I saw that they had gotten stuck too! Four cars stuck on our road at once is unheard of! SEEING four cars a day is pretty good for us!
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My Dad even got stuck with his 4- wheel-drive pick up about 1/4 mile from the landfill on Tuesday. One of the snowplows had pushed snow into the middle of the road he was on, instead of pushing it to the side. Dad called one of our drivers at the landfill, and Leo talked one of the landfill guys into going down there with a backhoe. By this time, though, Dad had his pick up out, but still couldn't get through. The backhoe plowed a path for him to get through, and Dad said the snow was up to his side mirrors!
Lol...that is crazy. I wish you could have gotten a picture of that snow plow stuck in the snow drift. :D
*sigh* I just lost the comment I was trying to post on here........................wasn't anything important..........just glad ya'll have snow, but sad that we didn't have the same..........however, if it isn't going to snow here, I would just as soon have it spring/summer weather year round.............thanks for sharing the pics!!! That's the only true winter we've enjoyed..........the pics ya'll and others have posted on their blogs or sent via e-mail...........You laughed, Kaitlyn??......LOL!!!............would have done the same thing myself...........unless we were headed somewhere important..............think that was basically all I had to say...............nothing much.................nothing worth writing over again...........
Well, I have been on some pretty snowy roads. So far I haven't gotten stuck in snow.
I would rather have snow than ice though. Several times this winter I have been driving along and then have begun to slide due to ice. In fact, this morning as I headed out to work with my dad I slid on some ice right in front of our house. Inspite of the fact that I had several hundreds of pounds scaffolding in the back of the van I still had trouble sliding.
I have found that while extra weight can help when you are going slow it makes you very vulnurable at higher speeds.
Glad it turn out okay in the end!
I do have a story of my own as far as siblings and driving....
I personally do not like it when I am driving and have to make a turn so I lean forward in my seat in our Dodge 15 passenger van and my sibling in the passenger's seat leans forward to look out the window to see if any traffic is coming. When they do that though they block my vision!
LOL Jack... Way too realistic. This winter I've gotten a LOT of practice walking, pushing, that sort of stuff. I've got a little dodge neon that sits a whoppin' 6 inches off the ground, and generally I'm headed out to work before the plows get out. So, when we get 7 or 8 inches overnight, it can be kind of, well... exciting? Anyway, glad to know I'm not the only one...
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