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Okay… So how was tonight you ask? Well, everything started off great… More dinner at Pete and Michelle’s place. Mmm… Anyway, for those of you that aren’t within 100 miles of Detroit, this area got hit with snow tonight. Hit hard. We’re talking about 6″ – 10″ on the ground. This is *not* an exaggeration, I was just out in it.
That’s where the problem started. I left the Ferndale area at right about midnight. Except for the obviously slow conditions, the drive was very uneventful. I stopped on the way for a bottle of water and a candy bar, no big deal. Quite a bit of slipping, problems leaving stop lights, etc, but everyone who braved the roads seemed to be driving safely.
Anyway… I get home, well, no, back up a bit. I get in to my subdivision, right to the end of my driveway, and get stuck. See, I live on a court with a rather long, slightly hilly, driveway off the main subdivison road. I try to go up the hill, I get stuck. Not stuck as in ‘my car is stuck in a ditch’, but stuck where my car couldn’t continue forward, as the road was too slippery to continue. I think this was compounded by the hard pack snow underneath the fluffy stuff, but I digress… Anyway, what ended up happening was that I had to shovel ruts down to the pavement for three to five feet, use that to get my car going, continue until I stopped, lather, rinse, repeat. This snow ranged in depth from six inches to drifts that were over a foot deep. Needless to say, it sucked. Anyway, after all the fun with that there was another two foot drift in the middle of the court, and a four foot drift in front of my garage door. I snowplowed through the two foot drift and shoveled away the four foot one. Oh, and I just looked outside, here’s the plows. Uggh. Ah well, at least I got a workout.
To detail the shoveling distance I grabbed random satellite photo and drew some lines. The yellow line in the road is where I originally got stuck, the red line indicates the distance that was shoveled. You know something is seriously wrong when you can detail the distance you shoveled on satellite images.
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I <3 my suv
Heh. I spent last night rescuing two of my very anti-suv friends that got stuck out in Armada. Funny how they bitch all year about suvs, but the second they get stuck in the snow, who’s the first person they call? Hehe. I am always happy to help out my friends, but they don’t get to complain about suvs for awhile.
I live on a dead end, and there’s only a few houses on my street so the snow really piles up. When I got home last night around 3am, a guy that lives across and down the street a bit had gotten stuck in the snow drifts and was trying to shovel ruts as well. I had him back his car up to the begining of the street, and I made a bunch of ruts by driving back and forth from his house to where his car was. Got him parked in the drive in about 10-15 minutse. He’d still probably be stuck on the street otherwise.
Man…we got a 1-foot dump in one night and I still managed to get my little VW out of the parking lot (which does NOT get graded on a regular basis like the roads here)…
I know snow sucks and when you aren’t used to it it sucks even more….and shovelling REALLY sucks (I’ve had to do that before) but did you exhaust EVERY possible effort to just drive through it? Rocking back and forth, turning the wheels lots, etc etc…I tend to try and find the laziest possible route before thinking about getting a shovel hehe
Yeah I did… The biggest problem was that it wasn’t just a driveway, it was a hilly driveway. There’s a good 20 degree hill at the beginning, that was the worst part. The rest were the drifts that my car couldn’t push through. The only reason I was able to plow through the one is because there was some dry pavement for me to get up speed. It was weird seeing snow fly up over the front of my hood…
Hehehe..yeah I’ve plowed the road in the VW a couple of times…thank *someone* for nice powdery snow and sweet ass winter tires :D
hooray for hanging out and dinner, booo hisss to driving in the snow!