0128-blizzard
The blizzard dumped snow on New England from Sunday to Wednesday
morning. The Outer Cape got 18-24 inches. I had an MRI on Monday and
doctors appointment on Wednesday that I had scheduled in CT and so was
at Jo-Ann's house while the snow fell. Tara went to Judy's house
since Judy has a generator. I had an eye doctor appointment Thursday
morning so drove back Wednesday afternoon.
Three daus of snow, with blizzard conditions at times, was too much
for the plows on the Cape. The Mid-Cape Highway (Route 6) was fine.
The state highways like Route 39 and Route 28 were in poor shape with
a lot of sloshy snow from being driven over. Local roads were in
terrible shape. Our street was just over a lane wide. I drove off
the side of the road by the house, got a shovel and shovelled the end
of the driveway where it had been plowed in. I then drove the Audi
into the snow covered driveway until it was off the road and good and
stuck. I took these photos after that. I was running out of daylight
so I dug the car out the next morning. It took longer than I thought
it would and would have missed the eye doctor appointment if anything
at all on Cape was open.
The car doesn't look like its in such deep snow. It has only 4-6
inches of ground clearance and a unibody. I drove it in fast until
the wheels spun so it is sitting on over a foot of snow, packed down
by the car's weight. I had to shovel under it the next day to get it
out. The front is in deeper than the back. The driver door pushed
away snow when I openned it to get out.
