Posted on 11/18/2014 7:23:04 PM PST by Olog-hai
I saw it all the time in Minneapolis, they would jump up in their house clothes of jeans and tennis shoes and grab a jacket to drive 50 miles, without a thought that it was 10 below zero and that if their car broke down, that they could suffer foot damage even on a short walk to a gas station for a gas can.
Half the time, I drive with flip flops. The other half, I drive barefoot. I don’t drive in snow.
To me, when the car breaks down in winter and you pull out a sleeping bag with fleece blankets in it, and know that you will sleep like a baby in total comfort, then the emergency is not so bothersome at all, that is why I consider the sleeping/warmth preparation number one.
Especially for travel with females I like that, and the ability to light a candle and serve them a meal and a drink (Grand Marnier is in my kit) give them a roll of TP and their own flashlight, to help take away their concerns of being stuck in a situation like a blizzard.
Lake effect snow band: A time-lapse video - Gusto - The Buffalo News
http://buffalo.com/2014/11/18/featured/lake-effect-snow-band-time-lapse-video/
Here Comes the Snow: Wall of Weather Blankets Buffalo - NBC News.com
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/photo/here-comes-snow-wall-weather-blankets-buffalo-n250951
a sane person would start walking
an avowed liberal will wait for government help
a minority will cry racism
some might turn to prostitution for a chance to get off that escalator
obviously it is Bush’s fault
non-muslims should practice duck and cover while they wait for rescue
if it seems like help isn’t coming in time, there is always the right to die activists chance to jump over the side.
Those are great photos. One isn’t going to easily walk too far in any of those conditions. Especially your last photo. That one is just amazing!
And the first two show how pointless the “put your flashers on and give 911 a description of your vehicle” is.
Back in ‘70 (IIRC) in Pennsylvania, my ex and I drove off the highway during a blizzard (as did others, we learned later). Could not see the road at all and wound up in the median down an incline. He walked up to the road as I honked the horn every several seconds to help him keep his bearings.
An angel in an 18-wheeler stopped for us and took us an our cat to a motel in Punxatawney. (No; we did not see Phil.) We stayed two days and slept in the hall with about 50 other stranded people.
Someone took the ex back to the car later and it wouldn’t start because he had refused everyone’s suggestions to gas up before we started the trip. (Part of the reason he’s my ex.)
In ‘71 the Air Force relocated us to Alaska where we never experienced that much snow the 20 years we were there.
I grew up a few miles from Lake Erie in Western NY. During major snow events in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the Thruway would close and travelers would have to exit. We had many impromptu visitors in the parsonage over the years. It was exciting then, but seems weird now.
I very much enjoyed my years living in Hawaii and Florida! Snow is terrifying if you must be out in it. Inside by the fireplace, under a quilt, with hot chocolate is do-able.
As I said,it takes weeks.Seventy days in this guy's case.And,according to the piece he staved *and* froze...the freezing being a complicating factor.This piece is about being stranded on a snowy highway which,I assumes,wasn't in the middle of nowhere as this guy's stretch of road.
Just what I was thinking, get the hell out!. Especially Buffalo. Texas is hot in the summer but I am not going to die buried in snow in the winter.
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