Holy Snow, Batman!!!

Last night I could still see the grass. This morning, I could barely see our house.

The southern part of Indiana starting right around downtown Indianapolis, got 6 or 8 inches of snow yesterday during the day. Amazingly, we got absolutely nothing where we live. There was a slight dusting in the evening but when we went to bed I could still see the grass.

This morning, as Jen was first to notice, we had about 8 or 10 inches outside. Just imagine what the South side looks like now! Jen had a little trouble getting her car out of the garage. Our road had not been plowed yet, but there were some tracks you could run in. Jen just got stuck a little bit near the end of the driveway. It was nothing a couple reverse-drive-reverse rocks couldn't take care of.

I was about ready to go too, so I had her wait a little bit down the road so we could drive out together. When I got my car out of the garage I just hammered it backwards. Near the end of the driveway I cranked the wheel and did a sweet little spin right into the existing tiretracks. It was like one of those movies where the car slides sideways right into a parking spot. Yeah, I was proud. It was awesome. (As you may or may not know, driving in snow is one of the most highly testosterone producing activities a man can do)

Well, we didn't make it 75 feet around the curve before we came upon an SUV in distress. Apparently the 4WD was out and he was running only on rear-wheel drive. He was fishtailing all over the place and I could see that he was quickly going to wedge his "truck" sideways in the road and be stuck for good. So I got out and ran up to help. I ended up having to push directly sideways on the truck at the back-right corner. He kept fishtailing right and it didn't do any good to push forward. So I ran along the side of the truck pushing sideways as hard as I could. After 20 minutes of pushing, shoveling, and grunting we finally got his "truck" onto the main road.

I find it somewhat amusing that Jen's Cavalier and my Toyota Matrix, both of which are tiny little rice burners, made it out just fine while that guy's SUV couldn't get 10 feet without somebody pushing like crazy. So not only do SUV's hog all the gas, kill more people, and cost twice as much, but they also can't drive for crap in the snow. Great! Let's all buy two! I realize that if the 4WD had been working it may have been a different story, but come on. Don't mind me, I'm just bitter from the frost bite on my toes. I really do hate stupid city people who drive SUVs because they think they're cool or they "need" them, though. I wish they'd just burn their money instead.

Anyway, Jen and I made it to work safe and sound. I followed a Hummer into work. Not one of those toy Hummer H2s you see all the time now, but one of the real honest-to-goodness Hummers of old. My previous tirade about SUVs aside, that thing was absolutely awesome in the snow. It was barreling through everything in its path. I'm just glad I was behind it instead of in front of it! My entire car isn't even as big as one of it's tires. :^)

So I guess we're going to have a white Christmas. Yeah! I've always had a better time on Christmas when there's snow around. I'll talk to you all soon. Merry Christmas!