Holy shit.

I passed out at my friend’s house last night, and had to drive home this morning. Currently we’ve got about two feet of snow on the ground. It’s drifting though…so in some places it’s waist deep.

91 North was so bad in some places my car would have got stuck if I had to stop. The exit I normally take was simply NOT there…in it’s place was a wall of snow. It took me about 45 minutes to go about 15 miles.

The Weather Channel just said that at certain times, it was snowing up to 4 inches an hour. My car was completely drifted in…you could barely see it when I got up this morning. The snow was nice and light though, so we used a broom and basically swept most of it away…or rather, enough for me to get into the car….then I threw it reverse and with some effort managed to back out. Getting up the GIGANTIC fucking hill out of my friends parking lot however, took 2 or three tries. First try I made it about 50% up it, then peeled out and slid backwards down the whole thing until I cut the wheel and pulling a 180 with basically no traction at all. I looped around the barely plowed parking lot…got going about 40, and plowed up the hill again. Some variation on this theme finally got me out after a few more tries.

This was BY far the most out of control weather I’ve ever had to drive in. And I did it with a Honda Civic, without studs or chains - demonstrating once again that studs are for pussies, and completely unneeded. Yes, there were places I was almost certain I was going to get stuck, like say, every single stop light. Or really…any time I had to stop for that matter, or even slow down too much..and sometimes just because…but the Honda power came through. I will say though, if I had to go anywhere outside of civilization, I wouldn’t. I was comforted on the drive home by the fact that should I get completely stuck, there were plenty of warm places around. Although it may have meant 12 hours in a 7-11 eating corn dogs…but hey…it’s better than dying out in the cold. I’m a particularly dense person sometimes, such as last night, and decided “Hey, they’re predicting the biggest storm of the year is going to hit tonight, I’ll go get wasted at my friends house and only take a hooded sweatshirt. What could possibly go wrong?”

I was just extremely careful not to try and use any side streets or anything. I saw MANY fools that did….and they are probably still out there digging…

I have never been as happy pulling into my parking lot as I was today. Speaking of which, that was quite a challenge in itself. Like I said though the snow is extremely light and fluffy though…so I just got a running start and plowed straight in….blowing snow out of the way…and managed to get to the only clear windswept spot in the whole parking lot. Then 20 minutes later the plow guy showed up. It’s awesome, every car in the lot is nearly invisible they are so buried in snow…except mine. I pity the fools that have to wake up in the morning and dig their shit out.

It’s hilarious…the Weather Channel keeps repeating “there is a heavy snow warning in effect in our area.” It’s like, no… last night there was a heavy snow warning… today there is just heavy snow… everyfuckingwhere.

Oh..ok..one more complaint and then I’m done. What the fuck is it with people walking down the middle of the fucking street? If I had a dollar for every fucking idiot I saw walking right down the middle of the street, forcing me to lose valuable and possibly unrecoverable speed, I would have…I don’t know…probably 20 or so dollars. Fucking morons. Go back in your goddamn house, or start shoveling the sidewalk…but I was having a hard enough time without having to worry about killing pedestrians who feel the street is their playground.

That’s all..I’m alive..and home. I have food, heat, a case of beer, a bottle of Makers, and I’m not going ANYWHERE.

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