We had quite the blizzard yesterday. M was up early since they had two trucks loaded with peas, and he was determined to get them to the elevator. He left the house about 6:00 am, while it was still dark. About 45 minutes later he called to tell me I could stay in bed because I wasn't going to make it to work. He had been sitting on the road most of that time waiting for the wind and snow to let up so he could see the road to get to town. He lost the fan belt on his pickup and no one was able to get to work at the station in town so he wasn't going to be able to fix it. He was going to call me later when he decided what he was going to do.
We have a row of grain bins practically in our backyard and there were times when I could barely see them for the blowing snow. I called M and told him not to try to come home. I didn't want him stuck and stranded. He didn't listen, though, and attempted to come home in one of J's work pickups. At one point he would get out and walk ahead and put a shovel in the snow so he would know where the road was, walk back to the pickup and drive to the shovel. He said he did that about 20 times before he got into some serious snow and was worried he was going to get stuck. At that point he found a small patch of bare road and managed to turn around and go back to town. J was still in town and wanted M to get home before he left and headed back to Scobey in case he got stuck and needed help so they set out together. J has a jacked up pickup with big tires so he went first and plowed and shoveled his way through and then M would follow.
M said he would let me know when he left town but didn't. Said he didn't want me to worry, but he knew I would tell him not to come and chew his butt for not listening to me. I saw him walking across our yard and wondered how far he had had to walk. Turns out it wasn't far. He was able to blast through most of the drifts but couldn't see how big the last one was until he felt like he was in the air. He almost made it through!
J was out bright and early to come plow us out and R plowed his way from his place to ours. When they hooked the tractor on to pull the pickup out, they couldn't even budge it until we shoveled some snow from underneath. J and R plowed all day. It started snowing again about 3:00 and is still snowing at 10:30 so they may have just wasted their time. This is getting really old!
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| Our driveway |
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| A little stuck |
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| Trying to pull it out with the tractor |
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| The hole left after the pickup was out |
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