Yesterday the yard was so icy that DH had trouble getting his van and empty trailer out of his parking area to go to the storage unit to load it for today's work. Hmmmm.....well.....my parking spot is on a hill (next to the house) and it was not so icy, so we decided that we'd park my truck down in the other area and back his van and loaded trailer into my spot....even if my area got icy, he'd be headed downhill to start. If I have to get out, I should be able to do it with some ice melt and 4wd...or just call for the sand guy to come.
Now....we had high high winds in the night, but didn't really think much about it....until this morning.
When I got up and looked out the window I sayLook at this picture......see that small blue speck waaay over at the bottom left of the picture? (it's actually a water bottle with a blue label). Well....when I parked that truck last night, that's about where the front passenger tire was sitting...and it was parallel to the Buick....you could have parked another vehicle between them. Darn good thing we didn't, because what you see in the picture is what we saw this morning.......the wind really was strong enough to blow that truck across the ice to where you see it in the picture!! Talk about shocked!And, of course, from the house we couldn't tell where it was in relation to the car, so didn't know whether or not it had gotten close enough to hit it until we went out and looked. They're actually about a foot apart.....PHEW!!
Done ramblin!
2 comments:
YIKES! Our driveway was like that too but no hill as you know. Now we have snow on top even after the plow job. We did not get as much snow as you did. I remember winters like that in Maine! Don't walk on that stuff without cleats!
I survived an ice storm in Nebraska years ago--I wont ever do that again--I lived on a hill and the higher up I got the more I slid down the hillside sideways! FREAKY--car sat there for about 3 days....and I walked home from that point...yer lucky there was no damage! *~*WIPPY*~*
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