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.
