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Snowpocalypse, South Puget Sound edition
Dec. 19th, 2008 11:20 amQuickie update: By sheer luck, I managed to get my car home (just barely) yesterday afternoon, slewing and fishtailing the last few yards up the hill, and then slid-skid-jammed it into the last open parking space by the entrance to the apartment complex parking lot, where it is now reposing under a blanket of yet MORE fresh snow.
This apartment complex is a large one and sprawls down the side of a very steep hill -- steep enough that even the roadways running parallel with the hill's contours are aslant, so that in conditions of 7-8 inches of snow (my best guess, since our crappy local paper has at no point given us actual info on total snowfall or anything), cars that try to go anywhere will--eventually, slowly, inevitably--slide sideways into the backside of someone else's parked vehicle. Me, I am leaving my car lay where Jesus flang it until we have some significant melting. Which might not be until after Christmas, given that we have yet ANOTHER big snowstorm coming in over the weekend.
This is tiresome. I am lucky I did not get hit on the road, or slide into a ditch; I am very lucky the buses are running nearby, and that at worst I can walk the two miles to the shopping center and grocery story; I am revelling in my good luck that the electricity has not gone out at any point (although if we catch the gale-force winds predicted to come with the next storm, that could change). But still; tiresome.
This apartment complex is a large one and sprawls down the side of a very steep hill -- steep enough that even the roadways running parallel with the hill's contours are aslant, so that in conditions of 7-8 inches of snow (my best guess, since our crappy local paper has at no point given us actual info on total snowfall or anything), cars that try to go anywhere will--eventually, slowly, inevitably--slide sideways into the backside of someone else's parked vehicle. Me, I am leaving my car lay where Jesus flang it until we have some significant melting. Which might not be until after Christmas, given that we have yet ANOTHER big snowstorm coming in over the weekend.
This is tiresome. I am lucky I did not get hit on the road, or slide into a ditch; I am very lucky the buses are running nearby, and that at worst I can walk the two miles to the shopping center and grocery story; I am revelling in my good luck that the electricity has not gone out at any point (although if we catch the gale-force winds predicted to come with the next storm, that could change). But still; tiresome.