Man... I feel ripped off.

[wolfwings]

I bought plenty of gear to be ready for damn near armageddon in my Yaris; good extra-skinny winter tires, heavy-duty snow chains (which I have used to chip the ice off of a friend's street, amusingly, without harm to the chains), heavy gloves and coat and hat, etc.

This entire trip, I haven't run into so much as snow on the ground. The closest I came was deep mud in one friend's driveway that I stopped at along the way. Nadda else, at all. Even here in Denver, Colorado, it's bone-dry and staying that way all day today so my drive down out of the mountains will be sedate and boring.

I'm not complaining about the hassle-free drive, and my tires/chains have saved my bacon once or twice already back in Kansas City, but I bought them all for this trip... and ended up not using any of them. *laughs* Ah well, at least all the gear's gotten use a few times, and proven itself useful; just not for it's intended purpose.

How does that old song go? You can't always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need... I definately needed this gear in the last couple months and upcoming few more months, but not in the way I thought, or wanted.

Comments

[alaskawolf.livejournal.com]

well your welcome to drive up here and drive on the snow and ice :P

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

I actually hope to visit Alaska via ground travel to some extent at least some time in 2012. So I may well end up doing just that if I have my project car done by then. I figure if anything can survive the roads it'll be an AMC Eagle.

[alaskawolf.livejournal.com]

my first car was an 81 eagle station wagon with wood grain siding :P

[lionman.livejournal.com]

You could turn south and head down to Tulsa for a while. ;-)

[lionman.livejournal.com]

You could become a snowstorm/icestorm groupie and follow the weather around! ;-)

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

The proper provisioning of emergency equipment serves as a ready disaster repellent.

[rue-gingertabby.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[shepherdwolf.livejournal.com]

LOL, what'd you buy all that for? Are you going through the Donner Pass or something?

I LIVE in the snowbelt, and all I have is a tow rope and a $20 bill :P You can just question the masculinity of the first SUV driver to wander past ("You won't tow me out...what, you're not SCARED, are you?") and you're good to go.

wanna come visit? :) we're expecting snow any day now...

there was enough ice in Kansas City to justify snow chains? (I don't even know where you FOUND snow chains south of Denver) Didn't most people just stay home for the 24 hours where everything was frozen? :)

[uplinktruck.livejournal.com]

DrewKitty is dead on accurate.

[socalwhitetiger.livejournal.com]

As it's been said. You were prepared for it, so it didn't happen.

[alshe-wolf.livejournal.com]

Lol. How ironic. :P Btw did you get my pm on here? 0.0?