Well, we came home from going out to dinner with friends last night, and I just didn’t want to leave the car up on the road. I’d left it there all day in anticipation of predicted snow that never came, so I figured we’d be okay parking closer to the house overnight. When we got up this morning, there was eight inches (plus) of new snow, and it’s still coming down.
Path down to the acequia at 8:30 a.m.
Being a manly man, I decided to back the Dodge out of the steeply sloping rocky “driveway” to get it back up on level ground, in case the roads were actually plowed out and we had to go somewhere (?). Hah. El Dodge no go anywhere, muchachos. It’s supposed to snow all day, at about an inch per hour, then get down to near zero tonight. And oh yeah, the wind will be picking up soon and pushing it all into drifts. This is powder snow, not heavy wet stuff, which meant I could sweep it off the car, but… underneath all that new snow is compacted old snow that’s turned to ice. Urk.
UPDATE: Be sure to read Barbara’s comment. Three feet?! (There’s at least a foot here.) I’m not sure where she’s located, other than south of here, where they for some reason have more snow. Meanwhile, it looks like there’s a lull in the snowfall here, so I’m going to go tromp around with my camera, even though the sun’s not about to come out yet. And the damn car is utterly stuck until spring, probably.
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With 3+ feet on the ground and six feet at the sides of the house where it’s sliding off the roof, I can’t imagine even a snow plow digging me out at this point. There is no way I’m shoveling anything except 3′ square in front of the door. Birds are landing on the drifts staring at that one bare spot as if to say where the hell is the seed? Can’t imagine what the Pecos Canyon is like. The county has yet to tackle the roads even on the flats.
I read somewhere that in the 1920′s cars, being what they were then, had to back up La Bajada Hill to get over – reverse was stronger than forward gears apparently.
Yah, reverse was geared lower. Probably still is!