Last night, Adam decided to take the Trailblazer out to see how bad our street was since we live on a hill. He made it down to the clubhouse and couldn't get back up the hill. So the Trailblazer is now camping out at the clubhouse! As Adam was walking home, he passed some of our neighbors that had to abandon their car and trek 3 miles home. They said that there was a 10-car pile up right outside our neighborhood! Whoa! Funny thing, how piles ups multiply like rabbits! As of 7 AM this morning, the 10-car pile up turned into a 22-car pile up! People could hardly get in or out of the neighborhood even with four wheel drive because the road was littered with abandoned cars!
We walked down to the scene around 10:30 to find several cars still abandoned and a tow truck trying to pull one car out of the dog pile! The tow truck was sliding on ice, down a hill while trying to pull a car out. We also watched people continue to drive towards our intersection, with a tow truck in the middle of it and try to get past. Really?!! Come on people! It's common knowledge that people in the South can't drive in the snow and this 22-car pile up was proof! We actually saw some people have to abandon their car while we were standing there. One neighbor was desperately hoping to get his car out of the pile, but the tow truck said he was called to get one car out and that's all he was allowed to do because there were several other calls he had to respond to! So close, yet so far!
Well the good news is that Adam gets to stay home today because there's no way we can get out without playing plinko with the other cars! The ice and snow are melting some (Thank You Sun!), but I assume it will just refreeze tonight and there will be another game of bumper cars down the road. Adam is currently getting cabin fever. He hates missing work, especially when he has to go in on Friday to make up for it!
No comments:
Post a Comment