Dave
Staff member
I swear to God this HHR is going to be the death of me. No, there was no accident. But with 10 inches of the white stuff on the ground I decided that it would be a good time to try and get to the store for some supplies. If you've been following my blog, then you're weird. But you know that I was stuck ON THE INTERSTATE yesterday morning. Before the snow. Well, we'd had a couple inches, but not the 10 that followed.
So I decide that going to the store is a smart idea. Now, the store is about 5 blocks away. Why didn't I just walk, you ask? 0 degrees F with a 35-40 mph wind. Kinda cold.
It takes my son and I about an hour to clear away enough of the driveway to get the car out when my neighbor got home. He pulled out his snow blower and finished it up for us. (My wife baked him brownies and I delivered them not too long ago.) I then went out and made it less than a block before I got high centered IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET because the plows haven't bothered with the lower income neighborhoods yet. Strange how it's not economic yet the wealthier parts are done already. Hmmm...
A couple of guys come to my rescue and get me moving again, one of which tells me that the streets out of this neighborhood is perfectly fine. So I decided to keep moving. I break through the snow at the end of the street and start to actually move. But there were more places like our street, so I got stuck two other times. One of the times there was less than 1 inch of snow! Now, I've driven in this stuff all my life and have never had trouble before so this is scaring me.
I parked the car at a barber shop about 4 blocks away and walked home. Since then I've helped no fewer than 5 cars get unstuck on our street. I called the city of Omaha and was hung up on twice.
One good thing: One of the cars I helped unstick was a pizza guy that I used to play D&D with. He thanked us and told us next time we called we had two free pizzas waiting for us. Score!
So now I'm sitting here trying to get warm after spending a few hours outside in the snow pushing cars, battling the elements and cursing the city government.
How was YOUR day?
So I decide that going to the store is a smart idea. Now, the store is about 5 blocks away. Why didn't I just walk, you ask? 0 degrees F with a 35-40 mph wind. Kinda cold.
It takes my son and I about an hour to clear away enough of the driveway to get the car out when my neighbor got home. He pulled out his snow blower and finished it up for us. (My wife baked him brownies and I delivered them not too long ago.) I then went out and made it less than a block before I got high centered IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET because the plows haven't bothered with the lower income neighborhoods yet. Strange how it's not economic yet the wealthier parts are done already. Hmmm...
A couple of guys come to my rescue and get me moving again, one of which tells me that the streets out of this neighborhood is perfectly fine. So I decided to keep moving. I break through the snow at the end of the street and start to actually move. But there were more places like our street, so I got stuck two other times. One of the times there was less than 1 inch of snow! Now, I've driven in this stuff all my life and have never had trouble before so this is scaring me.
I parked the car at a barber shop about 4 blocks away and walked home. Since then I've helped no fewer than 5 cars get unstuck on our street. I called the city of Omaha and was hung up on twice.
One good thing: One of the cars I helped unstick was a pizza guy that I used to play D&D with. He thanked us and told us next time we called we had two free pizzas waiting for us. Score!
So now I'm sitting here trying to get warm after spending a few hours outside in the snow pushing cars, battling the elements and cursing the city government.
How was YOUR day?
