Today's lesson was titled "IT'S NOT NICE TO FOOL MOTHER NATURE."
Despite US Weather Bureau warnings about blizzard conditions in Hood River, when it stopped snowing today, we decided to go grocery shopping and visit my Mom. After all, the repeated warnings about driving in these conditions didn't apply to us, did they?
We backed out of the garage and immediately got stuck in the 3-foot snow burm created by the snow plow. The good news is that when the plow scrapes the accumulated snow off the street, the street becomes semi-drivable; the bad news it that the scraped snow gets piled up in the entrance to our driveway and forms a barrier.
No problem (they thought) -- Pennie got out of our car with the snow shovel and shoveled the snow away from our front wheels (I love her spirit and determination), and voila! we were free and on our way.
The following video will explain what happened next, and how our wonderful neighbors came to the rescue of two hapless, helpless, hopeless (and foolish) snow-rookies.
We hope the weather forecasters are correct, and that we'll be able to drive the 60 miles through the Gorge to Portland on Friday for our flight to San Diego.
In any case, we've learned another lesson about life in the Pacific Northwest.
Tom & Pennie
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Pretty crazy. And it looks like it will be Friday or Saturday before it's warm enough to rain vs. snow!
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