Dec. 15th, 2005 at 10:54 AM
But hey, Max needed his dry food, he's simply not a straight wet food cat. So I went and got it.
On unplowed , slick roads. Yeah.
It started spitting around 4am, switched to tiny, hard pellets of snow like ice around 7am. We had roughly 1/2 inch by 9am.
930am I head out to clear the Truck off, start it up and attempt to go get Max's food and possibly Mark's birth day gift.
Should have realised how bad it was going to be when my tail started slipping when I pulled into the gas station to top off the tank.
Seriously debated dropping the truck into 4 wheel drive, but after what happened the last time I did that(tranny burned out, cost 1500.00), I was and still am very leery of doing that. So I decided to limp it in 2 wheel drive.
Note to self- when you think about putting some of your large rocks in the back to give it some weight, DO IT NEXT TIME,DIPSHIT!
I made it to the vet's office, slipped 3 times on the way there, each time when I tried going just a few miles faster up an incline. Speedlimit was 45-55, yeah right, I was glad to be doing 30. Heh.
I get there and Michelle asks me what I was doing, did I really come all the way out there just for food? Well, yup, I sure did. We laughed about the crazy things we do for our pets.}:) They plan to close up early and head home, especially since they are located well out of town and won't really be plowed well until extremely late or tomorrow.
I get Max's food, ask about his sniffles, etc. and head home.
Normally, its a 15 minute drive. It took nearly half an hour to get there, and half an hour to get home.
I slipped trying to take off at a green light. I said the hel with this and came straight home.
So I won't be going over to Fuddrucker's to surprise Mark with the rest of his office crew for a birth day lunch they have planned, if they still do it rather than wait, which I think they should. Although, he is off tomorrow, so no clue when they'd do it. But you know, risking my life or the Truck, just ain't worth it.
Been home half an hour, hood of the Truck is half covered already. Yeah, its still coming down good. Maybe they'll send Mark's office home early or something. Its nasty out there and I've yet to see a damned snowplow that wasn't a privately owned vehicle. That's the thing about the southern states, including southwest Virginia, they simply do not know how to snowplow or how to be overly prepared by having plows out and running the roads before the storm gets good and going. That's the only thing I really miss about Michigan. At least there, the roads would have been cleared, every hour on the hour. Heh.
Still won't move back though, I'll take a paltry few inches over a few feet any day.
Special weather report just came on, we're under an ice storm warning until 9pm tonight. Yeah, great.
Edit-1115am- Mark just called. They still plan to meet at fuddrucker's. I said sorry, I ain't seen a single snowlow, I'm not going anywhere, besides Salem probably plows way better than Roanoke does. He understood.}:) He's going to go pick up his birth day gift on the way home from work. LOL