Adventioneering

About a day before Victoria and I were supposed to leave
for Thanksgiving, 986km away, NOAA suddeny decided
that it “might” snow “an inch or less”.

We woke up that morning to the power flickering
on and off as huge green sparks lit up the sky,
and all the snow. I’m not sure if it was transformers
blowing up or electrical wires just touching, but,
the power was still out when we decided to leave,
and it was out long enough that when we got back
all our battery backed up things were dead.

We were going to take the BMW, originally, but with
the weather there was no way that was going to happen.
So, front-end damage, one headlight, and no spare tires,
there was the land rover. To make matters worse the spare
hadn’t ever been used before, I think, didn’t give me
a lot of faith, and to top it off, was unbalanced making
driving over 65 uncomfortable.

It turns out that last part wasn’t much of a problem.
We knew it was bad after the third or fourth jacknifed
semi. I lost track of SUV’s in the ditch after about 30,
but, I can tell you that there sure were a lot more SUVs
in the median than cars. The rover had no problem
getting through snow, at all, it was very sure footed.

We heard that they got 7″ by the time it was done. It was
a couple, maybe three inches by the time we got in I-70.
We averaged 60kph from KC to St. Louis; it took all day!
The roads were that bad, a lot of places you couldn’t
even see lines on the road. After St. Louis it switched
to rain and the roads were clear.

Coming back, it was dry the entire way, and all that snow
they got vanished without a trace. They say more today,
though.