Blizzard 

Indigo Incarnates

So… it snowed about 3’ in Baltimore. Some of the snow drifts are 6’ high. I can’t find the Accord. Seriously! The street in which I parked is mostly buried in a 4’ drift and all the cars on the street look like amorphous white dunes. I literally cannot tell which car is mine. Fortunately, Doug parked his Scion behind the house. Now, a Scion is a “B” size car, meaning that it belongs to the smallest category of vehicle that isn’t a Smart Car (which is an “A” size car). “B” cars aren’t known for being good off-road vehicles, har har. So that means that I’ve had to shovel a trench behind the car that extends down an alleyway so that we can drive to work tomorrow – a 100’ alleyway! The snow behind the house was waist-high. I feel like I have had sufficient exercise today.

For better or worse, I was only able to shovel the first 70’ of alley. The last 30’ isn’t snow, but rather slush. It was pretty heavy and my feet were on the verge of frostbite. Fortunately, the slushy part is only 6” high instead of 40” high, so even a tiny car like the Scion has enough ground clearance to roll over it tomorrow. It might be less than 6” by the end of the day, since we have full sunlight today.

Of course, the direct sunlight helped us out today too. A regular human would not have been able to shovel a 7’x70’ trench through 4’ snow continuously. But, being a changeling, I have superhuman endurance so long as Thistle and I have access to sunlight. We did today, so the high endurance was possible. It’s also how I’m able to do those 40-mile bike rides in the summer.

Hopefully the city authority will get a move on the plowing. A few of the main streets have been cleared, but most of the side streets have not. I wouldn’t mind getting my Accord back someday, har har.

Oh, speaking of the Accord… I went to the Kelley Blue Book website and got a ballpark estimate of the trade-in value of the Accord. It’s been in six accidents, has serious cosmetic damage, moderate mechanical problems (it needs bout $2,500 worth of repairs than I cannot afford), and 105,000 miles. The response from KBB was “Your car has no trade-in value”. Ha ha ha ha! That also tells me that I’m not going to sink $2,500 into the car either. Thanks to the utterly depressed economy, the Honda website has a whole lot of recently repossessed cars with under 30,000 miles for less than $15,000. Whenever the Accord dies, I will probably get one of those.

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