I've escaped!
I got up every couple of hours last night and opened the front storm door and shoveled the bit of front porch right around the door (can't shovel much more than that due to a messed up right shoulder). That enabled me to get out the door this morning (yay!). Walking down the sidewalk and around the truck in the driveway was fun, 'cause there's anywhere from 18" - 30" of drifted snow and it's just crusty enough that you can't walk on it but you can't really walk through it either... so every step involves stepping out of a hole, onto the crust, breaking through, etc. (lather rinse repeat).
While I was knocking the snow off the truck and letting it warm up, my across-the-street neighbor came over to see if I was really going to try to leave. I told him I had to at least make the attempt, so he shoveled the end of my driveway where the county had plowed me in, and then shoveled a little right behind the back tires of the Trooper so I had a chance to get a running start. (I love my neighbors... he and his wife are two people who I'll honestly miss when we finally sell the neighborhood and we all move away. They're planning to move to South Carolina at that point, so I won't see them much after that.)
Thanks to the Big Sturdy Truck, I was then able to clamber over the remaining snow in the driveway and once I was on the street, progress was swift and uneventful. And after all of that, I was actually on time to work (I'm never on time... one of the perks of management... I don't haveta be here at 8:30 if I don't wanna).
Whee... hopefully it will stay Really Freakin' Cold outside so we don't get the nasty melty refreezy thing going on for evening rush hour. Last I checked, it was 11 outside. Brrr...
Stay safe and warm, folks!
While I was knocking the snow off the truck and letting it warm up, my across-the-street neighbor came over to see if I was really going to try to leave. I told him I had to at least make the attempt, so he shoveled the end of my driveway where the county had plowed me in, and then shoveled a little right behind the back tires of the Trooper so I had a chance to get a running start. (I love my neighbors... he and his wife are two people who I'll honestly miss when we finally sell the neighborhood and we all move away. They're planning to move to South Carolina at that point, so I won't see them much after that.)
Thanks to the Big Sturdy Truck, I was then able to clamber over the remaining snow in the driveway and once I was on the street, progress was swift and uneventful. And after all of that, I was actually on time to work (I'm never on time... one of the perks of management... I don't haveta be here at 8:30 if I don't wanna).
Whee... hopefully it will stay Really Freakin' Cold outside so we don't get the nasty melty refreezy thing going on for evening rush hour. Last I checked, it was 11 outside. Brrr...
Stay safe and warm, folks!