Well... Yesterday I was driving to a park we often visit, and the ploughed section of road ran out. I normally wouldnt have continued in a FWD but the road looked completely flat, and no worse than just an inch of fresh snow on the road. I was going about 70km/h and as soon as I hit the "fresh snow", the car started going squirley. I knew at that point it was more like 6 inches deep, with horrible drifts! I tried to put on the brakes, but it sucked me into the ditch, and high-centered me.

Anyways... I called a tow truck, and it took him about an hour and a half to arrive. I didnt even try to dig myself out, it would have made me cold, wet, and I knew I wouldnt get anywhere by myself. The tow truck made it about 3/4 of the way to where I was, and got stuck himself. He played around for at least 1/2 hour and finally called in backup... Another tow truck came to winch him out, but they still couldnt get to me... I left the car overnight.

This morning, I visited it, and it was drifted completely in, only showing what was above the bumpers! There were also 2 more vehicles abandoned since I was there... It was a funny scene. Wish I had my camera. Everyone I talked to said I'd have to wait until the road was ploughed before I could get the car... So I called city infrastructure (This happened on a city street BTW) and was transferred 4 times, before I talked to the "snow-removal co-ordinator". I explained my sob story to him and he felt my pain. He told me to meet him in 45 minutes at my car, he would bring the grader and a front end loader!!!

So I got to watch a full sized CAT front end loader with a bucket big enough to swallow a minivan dig my car out of the snowbank. He was a hell of a driver too, coming within a couple inches of my car with the bucket. Tense few seconds, but after that, I was winched out of the ditch and all is well again...

Talk about the city actually coming to my rescue for once!!! All I ever hear about is how horrible of a job they are doing. I must disagree, this was amazing! Having a grader, front end loader and city workers all come out just to dig me and my 1988 oldsmobile out of a snowbank! And all in less than an hour!

Thats nice of em to do. Now if I only I could get my city off my ass. Remodeling the house and said I aint doing any electrical (plan was I wasnt oing to), but later decided to put in some flood lights int he living room. Damn inspector been snooping aorund almost every day now.

Good story!
The residential roads suck around here....ahhh...here's my recent story:

OK, OK...
So it goes beep beep (bell is a tone instead of a ring), and school is over. So I gather my books and shit...talk to friends a little and go to leave. Note that my car came with a cheap battery from a "Meijer" supermarket. So I go out to start the damned thing and guess what....didn't even want to crank...awww shiz...my battery be dead!
So I asked around the parking lot...no one has any jumper cables (odd, eh?). So I go inside and finally I get the janitor to drive his truck over (snow plow on pickup truck) and he jump starts it....and I'm off. That's my little story....that very same day I got a Red Top Optima and also got some new tires...eh...and a new front right chrome wheel cause that day the tires that came with the car go its first taste with snow with me driving and it obviously was not good. Hit the damn curb twice, both times the front right wheel....but I got a nice new (remanufactured) chrome wheel now. Oh...and I ended up getting some Continental ContiExtremeContacts....so far these tires have performaned excellent....more to come on the tires in another post...

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Brando

wow when we had our big storm before christmas I was driving to work I saw like 8 stuck semi's, 1 city bus, mercedes-Benz Slk500 little car, tons of other cars stuck in snow banks on the highway. several were buried past their doors!