I left work at 1:30 today. I took the mail downstairs and headed to the train station. I had to stop at an atm so I was probably on the train and to Quincy by 2:15. And that is when the cluster started.
At 2:24 I noted the time. I was sitting in a line to get out of the parking garage. I was texting Justin saying "And the delay begins." I figured it was just slow because they only had one booth open. I was in the line to get out of the parking garage for 20 minutes. TWENTY MINUTES.
Justin text messaged me and said he looked at google traffic and I was not going to like the result. At this point, I was still positive. I thought I would just hit a little delay getting onto 93 and then I would be okay for the rest of the way. No. It took me an HOUR AND A HALF to get from the parking garage to exit 20B. I know that means nothing to you but thats approximately eight miles. It took me an hour and a half to go eight miles. People were getting out of their cars on the merging ramp to brush the snow off their back windows. People were getting stuck in the snow. A semi was sitting there squealing his tires. He was stuck ON the ramp making it hard for people to get around him.
Oh and while I was sitting in the line to get out of the parking garage, my gas light went on. Thankfully, I made it to the gas station in time. It was about 4:30 p.m. when I got there. Had to wait in a long line and clean off my wipers because the ice was so bad on it that I couldn't see through the blur on my window. And within less than a city block of the gas station, I was having a hard time seeing out of the windshield again. But I trucked on. I decided to stop at the service plaza which was 5 exits away. Don't know how long that took me...but the NEWS was at the service plaza covering the weather. There were a lot of people there scraping off their windows and things.
I made a potty stop and then got back onto the highway. Just past exit 12, I was going 20 miles an hour and my car spun out. I did a 180 and landed head on with the guard rail. The snow actually stopped me from crashing into it. But I was stuck. This man stopped and asked if I was okay then put in a call for someone to come help me. At this point it was after 5. I was so frustrated I just burst into tears. Scared, too. Having no idea how long I would be stuck out there. Luckily another man stopped, too and the two of them were able to push me out of the snow.
So on I went. I had to drive VERY slow the rest of the way home but finally I got to Fall River. We live in a very hilly area so I knew it would be tough going my normal way. I tried to go a different way and I got stuck about half a block in. My car wouldn't move. And do you know that people just kept driving by me? Some of them had the gall to honk at me. I had my hazard lights on. Did they think I was just sitting there for fun? I couldn't believe my luck. SO CLOSE to being home. This was probably at around six p.m. that I'm stuck. I called Justin just furious that no one was helping me and he said he would come shovel me out. I decided I wasn't gonna sit in that street much longer and watch people shovel their driveways and not help me.
I reversed my way back down the hill and tried going up our street. That didn't work either. Justin walked down with a shovel and unfortunately that wasn't working either. He told me to get in and he backed down to the hill and we took a different route into Fall River.
Of course parking on one side of the street is prohibited but there were no spots in front of our house so Justin parked me on the other side. He just got back actually. He went and moved my car to the right side of the street.
What a complete cluster. I can't believe no one would help me as I was OBVIOUSLY STUCK.
I can tell you what, I am not going to work tomorrow. Its our Christmas party so we're only working till 12:30. I am not making the effort to deal with traffic tomorrow. I'm moving Saturday and I am not ready at all. I need to go get my money since I Wasn't able to do it today bc the bank is closed now. fJLAKJFKA
CLUSTERRRRRRRRRR
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Oh sugar! You didn't tell me about the spin out. I am glad the two fellas helped you get unstuck; it restores my faith in east coasters. Be thankful you are making the move on Saturday, what I am seeing on the weather channel tells me Sunday would be a miserable day to be moving.
It has been an intersting winter, to say the least. Dija have a good Christmas? We all went to Jared and Sarah's on the 24th. We had a great time and missed some ugly weather. That was good. no doubt!
Take care,
Uncle Pepe
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