Snow Update

Round 3 of the Snow has been the biggest.

Started at 5 a.m. Thursday. (Rounds 1 and 2 were Mon and Tues night; Round 3 is Wed night). It's 11 pm., 18 hrs by my calc. And at approx 1 inch an hour we are now at 18inches today and counting.

Was able to drive 20 miles from outside of Durango this afternoon at around 25 mi./hr. But...got stuck in Residence Inn driveway since their snowblower guys had gone elsewhere for a few hours. Was able to back up into main road and get a screaming head start and got into the parking lot.

After discussing with my bitter half, she suggests I head immediately to grocery store so that I don't have to get out any more. So...I head to: a) dinner, b) gro store, and c) liq store. Was able to park outside of restaurant (Ore House - Durango legendary restaurant) without getting stuck - paralleled park which I'm not able to do in normal weather. Made successful parking/departure.

However, pulling into gro store lot I got stuck. There was this young couple in p/u truck who worked diligently to pull my Hertz Impala out. As it turns out they were the Restaurant owners where we ate breakfast (Oscar's in Durango - definitely recommend.) Obviously they didn't accept my tip for pulling me out.

Loaded up at Grocery Store so that if I have to stay in for the next week I am totally set. Headed next to Liquor Store down the parking lot in this strip mall. Parked in middle of driveway - not taking any chances - went inside and bought week's worth of supplies once again.

Headed back to the hotel...and got stuck in the freakin' Residence Inn Parking Lot once again. Luckily there were Maintenance Guys out shoveling snow out of stuck cars, and then some super guy in a p/u truck comes along, and ties his line to my Hertz Impala and once again I"m pulled out of a pile of snow in an uphill driveway.

Hertz with no 4-wheeler and no brush to scrape the snow.

But, hey. I can't go home this weekend. Airport is closed. But I have food and booze to last a week. See you later.

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