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Leise rieselt der Schnee
Dec. 31st, 2014 01:51 pmSnow! Snow everywhere. It's been snowing since Monday, when we drove here. We were very lucky, with the route we chose and our timing we avoided at least three or four major traffic jams. The list of traffic jams and accidents on the radio traffic service became longer each time.
Then we got stuck because there was too much snow on the road upward. Fortunately we could roll down to a petrol station not too far away and they lent us a hydraulic car jack so we could better put on the snow chains that we fortunately brought with us, even though we were sure we weren't going to need them.
Today in the morning my dad decided to show me how to do it (one of the chains had become loose) with the mechanic car jack from our trunk. I was only wearing my pyjamas for breakfast, but I just put on a thick sweater and ski pants (English word?) because I thought it'd just be ten minutes in front of the house. Only then he remembered we still had to go shopping, and I'd wanted to try driving in the snow anyway, right? There's no shop in the small village here, you have to drive three villages further.
So I drove with snow chains for the first time and at first it was fine. Only later the road was already cleared of snow, which made driving with chains more difficult. After one turn I started to spin and ended up with the car turned about 100 degrees to the right in the middle of the road (and another car closely behind, fortunately in sufficient distance.) Not a lot of fun, but the most important part was not panicking. The car safety training I recently did probably came in useful.
Everything is white outside! Almost incredible, after how green it was at Christmas. It's still snowing, and right now there's even a little bit of sun behind very thin clouds. Yesterday we went for a long walk with the dogs, and Pierre (I think) already built two snowmen in the garden.
( Pictures (sadly not very good quality) )
Pierre is a very good cook and dinner tonight will be delicious. LB is coming in a few hours and a few other people too. I hope we'll be able to see the fireworks well.
Two more quick Yuletide recs before author reveals:( Jurassic Park, Asimov's Robot series )
Guten Rutsch!
Then we got stuck because there was too much snow on the road upward. Fortunately we could roll down to a petrol station not too far away and they lent us a hydraulic car jack so we could better put on the snow chains that we fortunately brought with us, even though we were sure we weren't going to need them.
Today in the morning my dad decided to show me how to do it (one of the chains had become loose) with the mechanic car jack from our trunk. I was only wearing my pyjamas for breakfast, but I just put on a thick sweater and ski pants (English word?) because I thought it'd just be ten minutes in front of the house. Only then he remembered we still had to go shopping, and I'd wanted to try driving in the snow anyway, right? There's no shop in the small village here, you have to drive three villages further.
So I drove with snow chains for the first time and at first it was fine. Only later the road was already cleared of snow, which made driving with chains more difficult. After one turn I started to spin and ended up with the car turned about 100 degrees to the right in the middle of the road (and another car closely behind, fortunately in sufficient distance.) Not a lot of fun, but the most important part was not panicking. The car safety training I recently did probably came in useful.
Everything is white outside! Almost incredible, after how green it was at Christmas. It's still snowing, and right now there's even a little bit of sun behind very thin clouds. Yesterday we went for a long walk with the dogs, and Pierre (I think) already built two snowmen in the garden.
( Pictures (sadly not very good quality) )
Pierre is a very good cook and dinner tonight will be delicious. LB is coming in a few hours and a few other people too. I hope we'll be able to see the fireworks well.
Two more quick Yuletide recs before author reveals:( Jurassic Park, Asimov's Robot series )
Guten Rutsch!
