Catching up

I missed last weeks Twinkie day. sorry.

It was an adventure.

See, mo is a nurse (as you may recall) and as such, awesome. But, being a nurse has a big ass drawback. People do not stop being sick because it's snowing. So she needs to get to work, if at all possible, no matter what. So we stayed at the crown plaza near the hospital. Nice place, old, but well renovated.

Getting there was no issue. Getting her to work Tuesday night...wah. let me tell you.

I was able to borrow a shovel and dig out the 4 foot snow drift from behind the car. I was able to drive it over to the hotel parking lot entrance. I got it stuck. I dug it out. I got it stuck again. I dug it out.

The road itself was clear. The plows had made it totally drivable. But the plows also made a 6-8 foot snow pile right at the entrance to the hotel parking lot. I saw some tracks through the pile, so I figured it was only say, 4 feet and I could use the tracks.

what I learned the next day was that those tracks were made by a chevy cavalier that was mostly airborne when it made them. There was another 4 feet of snow under them. So I totally got stuck, very stuck, again.

Did I mention the head of the shovel rusted off? it did.

So here I am using the head of a shovel while mo is using a garden shovel trying to get a car 3 damn feet to a clearly paved road so we can drive 1/2 mile to the hospital. We shoulda walked.

Then a ranger tries to get through the snow pile. He gets stuck right next to us. Then asks to borrow the shovel. I'm thinking "This guy is an idiot". Because I'm not done digging myself out, but sure, take the shovel, I'll wait. (actually I tell him I'll give it to him when I'm done - duh). He gets back in his car. nice.

So then this white H2 drives up. He starts to back up and two 17 year old boys get out and start digging us out. I tell him mo needs to get to the hospital. He takes her. He comes back, I tell him my problem is solved, so he pulls the ranger out of the snow.

The plow truck pulls up as he is disconnecting the ranger. Me and the 17 year old boys had made only marginal dents in the snow pile in front of my car. The plow truck stops and clears all the snow in front of my car.

Seriously, all of it. From an inch from my hood to the road, and 1 foot on either side. Think of the volume of snow I'm talking about here. He did it in 30 seconds.

Ironically, since I sure as hell don't need to get to the hospital anymore. The guy driving the H2 (his name is Mark) drives through the 6-8 foot snow pile (easily) and then pulls me back into the parking lot.

Here's the punchline:

Hospital security runs a van to the local hospitals during bad weather. All I needed to do was call them, get mo to the side of the road, go back inside. Awesome.