Daily Archives: Wednesday December 24th, 2008

Postal Humor

I just learned a valuable lesson.

When you get a knock at the door, and live on a hill with a shit load of snow/ice on the streets, and you answer the door and see a postal person with a package and yet, you don’t see a postal car anywhere nearby…..

DO NOT LAUGH!

She wasn’t at all pleased with me and actually shoved my package into my chest and yelled at me for laughing…

I have no idea how far she walked, but it “shocked me” since I wasn’t expecting it so it made me laugh…. some people just don’t have a sense of humor.

Breaking Out

We just got back from the store and I can say this with the knowledge of living in middle of Indiana corn fields for 18 years and having countless blizzards and countless feet of snow.

*THIS IS THE WORSE I HAVE EVER SEEN*

I say that due to the fact the Portland area (and my friends in Seattle say the same thing) is *NOT* in anyway shape or form ready for any snow storm at all. The *ONLY* hope is getting back to the 40’s like we are suppose to Thursday/Friday.

Yes, I know Buffalo and Canada and a million other places get way worse snow/weather, but the difference is, your areas are READY and use to it. This area isn’t even close to being ready or use to it. This would be comparable to Miami getting 12” of snow for a week, it’s that bad.

I still haven’t bought chains for my Jeep which is mandatory, since we haven’t gone to the mountains yet I didn’t see the need… I wish I had them now.

Since we live on a steep hill they are plowing the streets that run East/West North and South of us (Our street runs North/South) so we had to get some speed and ram our way through about 50’ of 3-4’ deep of snow and Thankfully, my 4 wheel drive made it, of course getting home was a bigger question since we need to drive uphill and of course when I was going as fast as I could going up the hill to plow into that deep snow a car just had to be coming from a side street… not that I stopped at the stop sign.

But we made it….

We walked to our downtown and snapped a few pics

Tweets for Dec 23rd

11:10 Didn’t think we would need chains unless we were headed into the mountains. =( Something we need to fix.

11:33 It is not warm enough to melt everything, but it looks like there is less on ice on the truck & jeep….I hope.

14:07 Don’t know if we got mail today…..don’t know if I want to bundle up and go see….it is snowing again.

14:39 No mail, not surprised…still have 2-3ft drifts on the road…main road through town is plowed, but we are side streets & a hill.

15:53 The snow drift on the deck windows has slid down some….that is a start. Don’t think the trash will run again, but need to do it anyway.