Glad you're okay. Did you make a yellow icee cone?
glad you're not a statistic......
Damocles (03-15-2019)
He likely has a diesel. Diesel trucks can idle far longer than gas.
Damocles (03-15-2019)
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
I was warm because the truck was running, I used the heat. And I had a blanket that I didn't use except when I tried to sleep. There were about 108 people at the shelter where I was at, and some at the shelter at the other side (a church in our neighborhood). I don't know the total, but there were two roads with the same issue and about the same number of cars stuck, parallel running roads about 8 miles apart CR 166 and CR 194.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
ThatOwlWoman (03-15-2019)
OMG how awful! So glad to hear you're safe. Take the rest of the day off!
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Damocles (03-15-2019)
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Yeah, I was out there from about 1 PM until 2:30 AM the following day. There were people ahead of me that I couldn't see and didn't know about that were there from 10:30 AM until even later as I was in the 2nd group they got out of there and they brought back a ton of people. When I first got to the shelter there were a total of 12 people in there, by the end of the night, as I said before, there were over 100. There were a ton of people stuck in a white out with 80 MPH winds. Some of them ran out of gas and were helped by those nearby.
My main goal was to make sure the authorities knew that I was there, knew my name, so that if they found a bunch of people but not me they knew to keep looking. I gave them GPS coordinates and told them where to find me exactly. Likely the reason I was one of the first found.
The backroom stuff I posted from my phone. I hate posting from a phone. My fat thumbs make for very short posts...
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
I'm certainly going to make a better go bag though. I figured with 36 years of driving and never stuck due to snow I was a golden boy. But when it is a true whiteout you will not be able to drive folks. Not even close. I literally had a view of white and windshield wipers... That was it. There was no moving. I moved my truck to the side of the road when I had a flash of a few feet to see in and just decided to sit and wait until I could actually see something. That opportunity did not come. Even when the snow stopped falling, supposedly, the wind still was blowing the snow around me in a whiteout. It didn't get better until 7 AM when the wind slowed down to 30 MPH... It was astounding how little one could see and when I could see the truck wouldn't move. The snow got all around and it was PACKED snow. When I got out to pee and to look at the rear of the truck I walked on top of the snow. It was as hard packed as a dirt road.
I was lucky, the drifting around my truck was like a bowl. It filled in from bottom to top, but it allowed me to open the door and walk outside. Some of the folks were literally frozen into their cars and when help came they had to dig them out so they could exit their vehicles or get them out through an open window. Imagine leaving your vehicle knowing you had opened a window to get out and that it would be filled with snow when you got back!
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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