White Out
02/07/07 08:08 AM | Up Chucks
Fire and Ice, the Sun also Rises. Chuck Pace © 2007
Severe Cold. Over 5 inches of snow.
I left work before 3:30 yesterday. I picked Jenni up at her work and we finally arrived home at 5:45. The streets were awful. The drivers were awful. In fact for several miles there was a grey Chevy Speck behind me worrying me worse than what was ahead. The driver of this can, er car had been in at least one accident (probably two) and was driving on a bent rim and flat left front tire. The right side of the car showed deep gouges and red paint, and the left corner where the tire was gone hade a broken fender and bumper, and steam and antifreeze was spraying onto his windshield. The problem for me was that he'd surge forward to very near (too near) the back end of the German girl and his windshield was glazed with the continous spray from his fractured cooling system. Eventually he turned off on Emerson and I breathed eaiser, but I doubt that he got much farther, he was gunning the engine, and limping along at 10 or 15 mph as he made it around the corner and out of my concern. I do still wonder what the other items he pinballed off of looked like, and if they got his liscense plate number. I did not. Once we got home it was time to watch Scrubs, The Office, Earl, Smallville and Heros off the DVR and catch up on the missed programming of the previous week.
Like previous years when there has been snow, the far east side here in Cumberland has historically gotten more. When we get any, the plowers in my edition like to pile it up in front of my mailbox, a few years ago we got snow for several days, and I didn't get any mail for a week and a half. When it thawed, the mailbox post had been boken by the plow. I'm not hoping for a repeat. Now it's time to take to the roads again.
Chuck Pace © 2007
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