Frosty Trees at East Fork Snowing hard here. Snowed all day. I had a dicey trip to town in a whiteout and could barely make out a track. Ran errands. Bought groceries. Went to the dentist, which entailed more than I thought. Called Jim (he was here at home) and he said he'd better meet me at the parking area and make a track for the cargo sled. The overcast had actually started to lift at that time. By the time I got to the parking lot and loaded the sled, the weather closed in again and it was a total whiteout. Waited for Jim for 30 min. Finally unhooked the sled and started down the road to look for him. Met him after about a quarter of a mile. He had had a hellish ride down. Couldn't see. Got stuck. Hit a rock and jambed his arm to the point he can hardly use it or grip with his left hand. We decided to come on home up the road. Then he learned I had loaded the sled and that the groceries were not in the Tahoe (I had told him earlier, but I guess he didn't hear me). So the cargo sled and groceries are setting in the middle of the parking lot. Another rough trip home. I got stuck twice, once tipping over. Tomorrow (or later), must go try to rescue the grub. I wish I had just stayed at the car. Then we could have maybe made a better plan.
Am plumb tuckered. Sweated bullets riding down this morning and even more coming home. This is the first time we've had any real problems traveling. I had hoped we could make a track home and then return for the groceries, but weather dictated otherwise. I'm grateful to be home safely, but just sick about all the grub I needed to haul. I'm sure there will be some loss due to freezing. I think that Jim plans to go down tomorrow (only IF he can see...the wind, I'm sure, has obliderated all tracks by now)...and maybe bring up a more powerful snowmobile, such as his 800, and carve a more definitive track. Anyway, who knows. All I know is...I basically goofed. The weather service has cried "wolf" so many times and there were really no big warnings about this particular storm, unlike the last so-called event that didn't materialize. Consequently, I wasn't all that concerned. Love, CHARM - 10 MILES SNOWMACHINE TRIP IN TO HER HOME AT BOULDER LAKE.
Yesterday was something else. Our driveway was all drifted, so I stayed home & missed Art Class so I could help hubby shovel. I would push 15-20 loads off the the side and then have to come inside and rest for 20-30 minutes. I did it about 5 times. I finally got the big drift out from in front of the garage door. He was doing the rest of the driveway. We basically worked from 8am to noon. By 1:00 it was entirely drifted in again! Anyway, about 2:00 someone called and said they would take Pudge Cat as they need a mouser on their ranch out by Merna. I was to meet them at 5:00 in town. Hubby went out and busted a trail for me and I took the cat and went to town, ran errands. Got home & driveway had a huge drift. I was sitting out on the main road deciding if I could buck it, when Hubby came out and did it for me. It is a fullblown blizzard out there! 90mph wind gusts east of us. (next day) This weather is nasty bad! My side is better each day and the shoveling did not hurt it. but I was very careful to rest. We do have a snow blower. But it is so tiny compared to the drifts we have and it throws the snow about 3 feet...so basically hubby moves it 3 feet and then goes back and moves it another 3 feet until it is off the driveway. He said I could never push it through the heavy snow. We are going south Feb 19. Maybe sooner if he gets more disgusted with this wind. Today is simply horrid! Hubby busted a trail so I could get out for Bible Study. He was going to come in later for lunch, but at 10:30 he called and said he was stuck in a ditch 2 blocks from our house! And he was driving the pickup in 4 wheel drive! It was a white out and he got over too far. I went home to help him. HA! We sort of sat there looking stupid. Well,,,,,,, I did,,,,, He was shoveling. Even our Jeep couldn't pull the pick up out. A very nice man came along and, from what I could see, he was having FUN pulling Hubby out! 2 other men also came along & stopped to help. Then we just went home. I haven't had lunch at Rendezvous Pointe since I went to Casper. JUDI - OUTSIDE PINEDALE (Lynn's note: "driveways" here are quite a bit longer than ones in town.)
We got a foot of snow last tuesday night, you probably laugh at only a foot but it about shuts Iowa down! gene had came home and got out diesel that sits high in the air and we did make it home but was all it wanted to push as someplaces it was a solid 24inches or more and he was worried how I was going to get walked in because of my knee if we got stuck. I assured him that I could ride him piggy back if that happened. That certainly made him not want to get stuck. MARILYN - FROM HER FARM IN IOWA
