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It is snowing here right now, but its dark out so its hard to see the huge flakes coming down in the camera.
Anyway it snowed HOOGE (mispelled to denote bigger than huge), flakes around 3:30 4:00 ish this afternoon.
As I was driving to my grandmother's house to pick up my daughter, I noticed my truck driving oddly. I slowed down thought nothing of it other than the roads being slushy. Then when I pulled into the driveway at my grandmothers house I felt this girinding feeling when I turned the steering wheel. I get out thinking something was hung in one of the wheel wells. Nope I had a very low tire, not flat, but low enough it could have had a blow out. I was like oh great.
So I go inside to get my daughter and asked my grandmother to borrow her air tank to air it up. Well the hose on the tank was froze solid so it was useless. While I had the tank out I checked the tire pressure anyway just to see. The guage did not even register correctly it was so low.
So my daugher and I walked around the block to my aunt's house and I asked her husband if he could take a look at it. So he did. After all was said and done, we got it aired up and I felt much safer driving home, but I will have it looked at when things let up a bit, so see if maybe I have a slow leak.
Then on the way home, we saw two cars off in the ditch. One of them was a young girl I know, but since I had no chains plus I had my daughter with me there was nothing I could do to help, so I waved "you OK?" to her as I drove by and she shook her head yes and she had a cell phone. So I knew she would be OK.
Then I starte sliding around - it was scary but I just let off the gas and kept steering until I got traction again. Then there was the scary part. the long steep hill back into town. We didnt slide, but I just went very slow and kept gently tapping my breaks to keep from building too much speed.
Everything was safe and smooth from then on, until we got to my driveway.
You see my driveway is very steep and when it snows it becomes slush. I had driven 20 miles round trip had no wrecks, nothing. I get to my drive way and I could not drive up it!
So I ended up parking my truck in a nook just off to the side of the hill where it was mowed off and flat and my daughter and I had to walk up the hill to the house. Ah such luck! :lo:
Then my mom called and said she was stuck between town and my house and asked if dad was around. No - even his cellphone was turned off. I ended up calling my brother and he went and found dad they towed mom home and they towed my truck to the top of the driveway. So all is well right now.
Are you tired of my nonesense rambling? You just want to see the pics right? OK here they are.
I hope that work is cancelled tomorrow so I can stay home and have snowball fights with my daughter all day,
Anyway it snowed HOOGE (mispelled to denote bigger than huge), flakes around 3:30 4:00 ish this afternoon.
As I was driving to my grandmother's house to pick up my daughter, I noticed my truck driving oddly. I slowed down thought nothing of it other than the roads being slushy. Then when I pulled into the driveway at my grandmothers house I felt this girinding feeling when I turned the steering wheel. I get out thinking something was hung in one of the wheel wells. Nope I had a very low tire, not flat, but low enough it could have had a blow out. I was like oh great.
So I go inside to get my daughter and asked my grandmother to borrow her air tank to air it up. Well the hose on the tank was froze solid so it was useless. While I had the tank out I checked the tire pressure anyway just to see. The guage did not even register correctly it was so low.
So my daugher and I walked around the block to my aunt's house and I asked her husband if he could take a look at it. So he did. After all was said and done, we got it aired up and I felt much safer driving home, but I will have it looked at when things let up a bit, so see if maybe I have a slow leak.
Then on the way home, we saw two cars off in the ditch. One of them was a young girl I know, but since I had no chains plus I had my daughter with me there was nothing I could do to help, so I waved "you OK?" to her as I drove by and she shook her head yes and she had a cell phone. So I knew she would be OK.
Then I starte sliding around - it was scary but I just let off the gas and kept steering until I got traction again. Then there was the scary part. the long steep hill back into town. We didnt slide, but I just went very slow and kept gently tapping my breaks to keep from building too much speed.
Everything was safe and smooth from then on, until we got to my driveway.
You see my driveway is very steep and when it snows it becomes slush. I had driven 20 miles round trip had no wrecks, nothing. I get to my drive way and I could not drive up it!
So I ended up parking my truck in a nook just off to the side of the hill where it was mowed off and flat and my daughter and I had to walk up the hill to the house. Ah such luck! :lo:
Then my mom called and said she was stuck between town and my house and asked if dad was around. No - even his cellphone was turned off. I ended up calling my brother and he went and found dad they towed mom home and they towed my truck to the top of the driveway. So all is well right now.
Are you tired of my nonesense rambling? You just want to see the pics right? OK here they are.
I hope that work is cancelled tomorrow so I can stay home and have snowball fights with my daughter all day,
