14T6MT
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So, as most of you know, NE got hot with a major blizzard last night. I feel the need to congratulate my Sonic for getting me to work.
I got to my car at 0430, it was in an uncovered city lot because there is currently a parking ban. My car was about 60 feet away from the entrance to the lot. The entire lot was cover in approximately 3 ft of snow. By 0510, I had reached the lot entrance and got out on the street.
The street conditions varied from bare ice to ~3.5' snow drifts due to the high winds. Once on the street I had to wait ten minutes while a front-end loader attached a web of chains to a full-size highway department dump truck/plow and pulled the plow out of a large snow drift where it had become stuck. Holy sh*t. Not encouraging.
I began my 3/4 mile trip to work. The streets were basically the automotive equivalent of moguls, I was hovering around in four wheel drifts, keeping speed because I would be screwed if I slowed down. I finally reached the large roundabout near my house and saw flashing blues. I came around to the exit for Rt. 1, about .3 miles from the hospital where I work. It was impassible because a box truck and a car had somehow crashed into each other and they were having trouble clearing the accident in the blizzard conditions.
I went back up the side roads to try another route. While getting off the roundabout I was held up for a other ten minutes while an idiot stuck on the exit in a sub-compact sedan demonstrated his complete inability to drive in the snow. Eventually a plow driver that was behind me ran over and told him to back out of the way so everyone else could go.
So I got down the side streets to the intersection where I had to cross Rt. 1, which is a four lane highway. I almost got stuck with the front of my car sticking out into the highway, but managed to power through it. Then I finally got to work.
What a fun drive. The car is a 1.4T hatchback, 6 speed, Trifecta tuned and on Eco mode the whole trip, with traction control off, wearing Continental Extreme Contact DWS tires. These tires are the balls, I credit them for keeping me alive this morning.
I got to my car at 0430, it was in an uncovered city lot because there is currently a parking ban. My car was about 60 feet away from the entrance to the lot. The entire lot was cover in approximately 3 ft of snow. By 0510, I had reached the lot entrance and got out on the street.
The street conditions varied from bare ice to ~3.5' snow drifts due to the high winds. Once on the street I had to wait ten minutes while a front-end loader attached a web of chains to a full-size highway department dump truck/plow and pulled the plow out of a large snow drift where it had become stuck. Holy sh*t. Not encouraging.
I began my 3/4 mile trip to work. The streets were basically the automotive equivalent of moguls, I was hovering around in four wheel drifts, keeping speed because I would be screwed if I slowed down. I finally reached the large roundabout near my house and saw flashing blues. I came around to the exit for Rt. 1, about .3 miles from the hospital where I work. It was impassible because a box truck and a car had somehow crashed into each other and they were having trouble clearing the accident in the blizzard conditions.
I went back up the side roads to try another route. While getting off the roundabout I was held up for a other ten minutes while an idiot stuck on the exit in a sub-compact sedan demonstrated his complete inability to drive in the snow. Eventually a plow driver that was behind me ran over and told him to back out of the way so everyone else could go.
So I got down the side streets to the intersection where I had to cross Rt. 1, which is a four lane highway. I almost got stuck with the front of my car sticking out into the highway, but managed to power through it. Then I finally got to work.
What a fun drive. The car is a 1.4T hatchback, 6 speed, Trifecta tuned and on Eco mode the whole trip, with traction control off, wearing Continental Extreme Contact DWS tires. These tires are the balls, I credit them for keeping me alive this morning.
