Left the store at 3:00 and got home (off of 43) at 4:15.
73 from Evergreen to Conifer icy.
285 from Staples to the bottom of Richmond Hill SUPER icy you get a break and it is not too bad from the bottom of Richmond Hill until Lone Rock Vet then it starts getting very icy again.
43 back to DCVR looks to have been plowed but not recently it is also super icy our road was not plowed snow total here is at 6 inches and counting.
Southbound 285 there's a semi truck blocking the right lane just before Green Valley Park and Ride. It is single lane traffic from that point up to Richmond Hill merge
As frustrating as it is to sit in traffic I think slow and steady is the best course of action tonight. Slow down, give other drivers plenty of space, and don't make any sudden extreme maneuvers. As icy as it is even the slow and steady strategy may not work, wishing everyone still on the roads a safe if albeit long slow journey home.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
mountaindollar wrote: ...I will have to have a cocktail ready for him when he gets here.
IMHO here's a perfect welcome home:
Single Serving of Hot Buttered Rum:
Get This Stuff:
1 1/2 teaspoons butter (or eyeball it and call it good)
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons powdered sugar
1-ish jiggers of dark Jamaican rum, the darker the better
2 tablespoons french vanilla ice cream
1 pinch ground cinnamon
1/2 cup simmering water
1 pinch ground nutmeg
Do This:
Combine butter, brown sugar, and powdered sugar in a large coffee mug, stir the mixture together with a fork until well combined. Pour in the rum (be generous, no one's going anywhere when the weather is bad), add the ice cream and cinnamon, and fill the remainder of the mug with simmering water. Mix the drink with the fork until the ice cream and butter have melted together to make a creamy topping. Sprinkle with a dash of nutmeg, and serve.
Consume and repeat until content, next to a blazing fire if possible, and then take a nap!
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
We had to go to the flats today for a coffee house poetry reading in our granddaughter's 1st grade classroom. Wouldn't have missed it for the world. But the roads sucked on the way home. Did a little shopping and got a call from our son asking if we were stuck in the accident at Windy Point. Thankfully we were still down the hill so we had a leisurely dinner before heading home. Windy Point was still a mess but not from the earlier accident. There were at least 5 cars with either inadequate tires or inadequate drivers all over the place along with a partially jack-knifed semi and a totally jack-knifed one. The semis were in two different lanes quite far apart interspersed with the 5+ cars, also in both lanes. Getting thru there was like driving a slow motion slalom.
Got thru there only to have stop and go from the park and ride to Schaffer's Crossing. Nice thing was since we were all only doing 5 or 10 mph there were no accidents. Just past the R. Hill merge a white SUV came flying southbound in the inside northbound lane, past the line of cars. We lost sight of it at the curve at Kings Valley.
The poetry reading was still worth it. The narrator ended her introduction reminding us that if we heard something we liked "please snap... (demonstration) ... not clap."
snow total here is at 6 inches and counting.
