It was a cold and blistery winter morning. The mountain streets were coated in ice and snow. Deserted, the roads were impassible...even the police were stuck. Traffic was stopped and no vehicles were allowed in or out. The fire department was out in force, driving large trucks to get to stranded motorists.

Suddenly, a noise in the distance...it sounded like a well-tuned British V8. Over the ridge from the gulch, a green Disco appeared. The firemen did nothing but watch as the Disco climbed up the hill. The only truck on the road, the tires gripped, the all time 4wd reliantly trudged for on the steep inclines. Passing other vehicles, including the police, stuck in the snow, the Disco made it seem effortless. Even the mail did not make it, but the Disco did. All traffic was stopped from entering or exiting the small mountain town. Even the Dept. of Transportation was on standby until conditions improved to plow the road.

Now I know I have no excuse not to make it to work if the weather is bad!

 

Use my excuse for missing work, I just don't feel like working. Sounds like you had a good time.

 

Now had you not grown up in MI you would not have had any idea of how to drive in that stuff and you would have been stuck too.
Great story Annie.

 

Hey, some of us damn southern hillbilly folk know how to drive too. I learned a lot back in '93 when my dad and I were driving around in a Bronco II getting people out of houses with no power. We were stopping at pay phones and calling the county EMA to find out where they needed us to go next. We even went one place where a national guardsman had tried to get in with a humvee and couldn't. My dad just motored right on in. You yankees can laugh all you want, but in the flat field next to my house we had at least 2 feet of snow, and for northeast Alabama, that's a hell of a lot of snow. We spent the whole of that day driving around picking people up and taking them other places that had heat. It was surreal. No cars on the road, no people in sight.

 

The fact that the roads were impassable for most people, including the police, and that I was the only car on the road...it was fantastic! Technically, they should have made me turn around and go home as the roads were closed until ADOT could get there. But the firemen and police just smiled and waved me by Even the utilities manager for the town, who walks to work, was late because the roads were treacherous.

I saw a big newer model Dodge get stuck and slide...I got to pass him too

 

Thats funny I have had my AC on in my Disco this week.