Last week's blizzard...update

We made a fruitless effort to get to work last Thursday. We managed to get about 1 1/2 miles from the house before we got the beast pickup buried in the snow. After nearly two hours, we got it pulled out using my Suburban (much to my surprise - I figured we'd have to come back & get the tractor). That was enough to convince us both that it wasn't worth it to try to get to work!

The county then came out later that afternoon to begin clearing our roads. More accurately, they brought the road grader out in an attempt to plow a path through the drifts. They made two passes on what we call the "County Line Road" and we noticed the grader wasn't moving. The road is about a mile south of us, but we could still see him down there...not moving. R headed down there to see if he needed help. Sure enough, the county boy had the road grader stuck. How in the hell do you get a road grader stuck?? They ended up calling the neighbor and enlisting his help with a huge 4-wheel drive tractor. Between the tractor and R's pickup, they were able to pull the road grader out.

Mail delivery finally resumed for us on Tuesday of this week, after five days without. Guess that's not too bad considering how difficult it has been to get around. The roads are still terrible, probably six inches of snow & ice packed on the county roads. It has continued to drift in places since last week with the regular winds. R ran the old beast into a snowdrift coming home one night this week...buried it clear up to the hood. Ooops. Our neighbor took his big pickup down there to get R out. He basically has the same pickup, only much newer and shinier! I was glad he was able to help out - I was stuck in town and R would have had to wait about 2 hours for me to get there. Thank goodness we have awesome neighbors - all two of them!

Doesn't look like it's going to get better any time soon, either. Round 2 has started....