mayhem
Minister of Fire
Yep. I couldn't beleive how fast it piled up...just amazing.
Here's what happened when I tried to go deal with it.
Its was all a muddy mess underneath, ground is nowhere near frozen and the bottom inch or so of this stuff was slush so it was very greasy too. Right when I rounded that corner on the driveway the front tires lost their bite and I sild off the side...couple attempts at freing the truck just spun the tires and dug ruts in the mud and moved it down the hill a bit further.
My neighbor's ex came by in his 1 ton Chevy Duramax and v plow and we were going to chain on the the front and pull it up wiht his truck. except right when he got past my truck his back wheels slipped a bi and his wheel caught my plow and ripped the valve stem off. So we had to shovel another 30 feet of driveway and in order to get him unhooked I had to actually back my truck down the hill a bit further. He eventually got out and a few hours later a friend of mine came by with an old fashioned come-along/chain fall and we dragged the back end sideways up the hill and when we got it up far enough we were able to pull it out with his wife's Durango.
Got a good dent in the side of my truck where it came to a rest up against that skinny tree, but I think it might pop out...no paint damage.
Caught me off guard like everyone else. haven't even put my coat of paint on the plow...as you can see.
Here's what happened when I tried to go deal with it.
Its was all a muddy mess underneath, ground is nowhere near frozen and the bottom inch or so of this stuff was slush so it was very greasy too. Right when I rounded that corner on the driveway the front tires lost their bite and I sild off the side...couple attempts at freing the truck just spun the tires and dug ruts in the mud and moved it down the hill a bit further.
My neighbor's ex came by in his 1 ton Chevy Duramax and v plow and we were going to chain on the the front and pull it up wiht his truck. except right when he got past my truck his back wheels slipped a bi and his wheel caught my plow and ripped the valve stem off. So we had to shovel another 30 feet of driveway and in order to get him unhooked I had to actually back my truck down the hill a bit further. He eventually got out and a few hours later a friend of mine came by with an old fashioned come-along/chain fall and we dragged the back end sideways up the hill and when we got it up far enough we were able to pull it out with his wife's Durango.
Got a good dent in the side of my truck where it came to a rest up against that skinny tree, but I think it might pop out...no paint damage.
Caught me off guard like everyone else. haven't even put my coat of paint on the plow...as you can see.
We had an awful day in Philadelphia yesterday but came home to the nice surprise of the lights being on. As some of you know my daughter has a lung condition and we met with a surgeon at Children's Hospital yesterday for a consult-she will need the right lower lobe of her lung completely removed and possible a portion of the left lower lobe as well. We had to leave the house at 5:00 to be in Philly by 7:00 for some tests so my dad had to come up to the house to run the generator while we were gone. It was going to be a tough day on its own, but having to be there so early, have our little girl poked and prodded, and then have to talk about opening her up and taking a piece out of her lung on little sleep and no hot shower since Saturday was terrible. People in Philly were shocked by what was going on just two hours to the north-they had assumed that it was just a simple snowstorm that had created some mayhem for a day and then melted. We are definitely the lucky ones though-half of our town is still out. My wife tried to go to her mother's house today just so grandma could spend a little time with the baby and literally couldn't get there. She tried three different routes (my in-laws live in Sussex County, NJ, about an hour north)-all were blocked by downed trees or crews working to clear trees/wires. Hopefully this will be all resolved by the end of the week.
