Stranded

We got some pretty wimpy winter weather last weekend. I fortunately was powerless in the mountains with 8 other girls, a post on that later. So when I got home Sunday night my driveway was pretty much a solid sheet of ice. I logically thought to park on the flat part of the driveway, honestly, not all to worried about it. Monday morning I even was so proactive and prepared as to be ready a few minutes early to allow time for my windshield to thaw out. However, when I walked outside to crank the car (ya know since I don't have one of those new fangled husbands to do that for me) my car was NOT where I parked it the night before! Fear not, no one wants to steal my precious little civic even if I do live in the ghetto. Nope, my not so all terrain vehicle SLID down my driveway! And poor little city girl's car couldn't make it back up the driveway! It would spin and spin and then gradually slide farther down.

Being the handy yet clearly not at all butch single independent capable and totally dedicated to my job girl that I am I went to get a shovel and start digging. (Now I preface the following details with the fact that I have a friend that in her singleness retreated to Wyoming and had to endure much much worse conditions without the ability to call her daddy for help...I. AM. NOT. THAT. TOUGH. I would totally retreat to the Bahamas not Wyoming.) After a good 20 minutes of that crap, I tried again. No luck. In tune with my new outdoor authenticity from "roughing it" all weekend I decided to get some hot water and attempt to melt some of the ice, then shovel some more. After about an hour of working I threw in the towel, resolved to wait it out. After talking to my dad I remembered that I had some sand in my basement so I attempted to spread some sand to help the situation, again, with no luck. Finally, I gave in and had to call dad for help. He too had several failed attempts, some more shoveling. The ice was so intense on the driveway dad could hardly stand to dig without sliding around. Finally with him pushing from the front of the car and me gunning it in reverse the civic was a free woman.

I opened the gates at the bottom of the driveway in case the rolling got out of control!

All that hard work in the early morning hours and this is how much ice I was able to breakup.

I was originally parked at the top of this paved part!

Entire front yard was a solid sheet of ice, so I sanded my walkway. PS my neighbor couldn't get his truck out either.