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And the same back to'ya Eric..
And to all, and all of yours... Have'a warm, thankful, and safe Thanksgiving … :)
Cheers,
The ESR
Even got some cool temps here in South Florida for a nice early morning drive. Extra thankful for that!
Scott
Same to you Eric and all the ESR members!
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.Quote:
Originally Posted by nvr2mny
Woke-up kinda early that Thursday AM + heard some rain softly dripping off the roof-tops. So, before the weather got any worse, took the Nasty Dog out for his morning constitutional
Light rain = no big deal
So, about half way through our stroll, even though the rain was still falling --- I wasn't really hearing anything . . . no dripping, no splashing, gentle rain-type sounds, no nothing
Even though it was pretty obvious that something was still falling
Hm
I noticed that, instead of the usual rain droplets dropping, what was coming down looked more like, well --- flower-petals . . .
HEY! --- wait a minute . . . that looks like . . .
. . . . !
Ruh-roh
Nothing was sticking = not too worried, soooooo . . .
. . . we toddled on back home, dried-off + I got us ready to drive on over to Zovig's for Thanksgiving
As I finished my shower, the dripping I'd heard earlier has stopped, so . . .
. . . took a quick glimpse outside --- thinking that maybe the weather was clearing, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand . . .
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No big deal, right?
I could still see lots of ground, so I figured the Ol' Porty-mobile could handle a little slushiness. I mean, this is the desert, right? How much snow could ever fall here? Seriously
So I went upstairs, shaved + got dressed, then headed down to collect our stuff, load-up + motor off to Zovig's
Took another quick peek outside . . .
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Not letting-up
In fact --- looks like it's PICKING-up
I'm about 60k mi thru a set o' 80k all-seasons, so ---- if we're leaving town? . . . I need to get on my horse, like NOW
I crunch-crunch out to the truck, sweep off a coupla inches o' heavy/wet/sticky/rapidly-accumulating white stuff off the windows, jump in + start 'er up, then roll around to the Car Hole, and -------- load 'em up!
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The Trucklet 's FWD --- so, with the engine out over the driving wheels, they have pretty-decent purchase on the road . . .
. . . long as the snow 's not too-TOO deep
The local highway 's usually fairly busy, so I was pretty-confident that the road surface there would be made more-driveable by any traffic that was moving on it
Problem was getting there. Highway 's few miles off, and since no one's really out driving anywhere, at this point, navigating cross-town on a bunch of un-used feeder streets quickly covering up in snow was looking pretty-damn problematic/sketchy, and so --- as we go a-sloshing-off into the murk, well . . . I asked myself . . .
. . . do I feel lucky?
Pfff --- silly question . . . luck is for rabbits. Besides, I was hungry . . . + Zovig's a really-good cook
Took a little while, but I made it to one of the larger boulevards, then over to the highway . . .
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. . . CHP were platooning cars down the highway, by then, so I joined the mob . . . + motored on
They were running a RWD Charger Pursuit for this detail, so . . .
. . . if he's not worried 'bout traction, then I'm not worried 'bout traction. So I settled in for a nice/quiet/slow cruise down the hill
Couple miles on + as we dropped down <2000 ft, the snow turn to rain = the road cleared
Thankful to make it to dinner --- on-time more-or-less . . . + safe + sound
Never thought I had to move to a desert --- to see snow, but . . .
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