Hi ho, MMMLogerinos!

The storm hit with high strangeness on Wednesday afternoon and dumped six inches here at Casa Haynes in a little over an hour bringing much traffic to a standstill. Seattle drivers don't do snow all that well, even if they're behind the wheel of a SUV with four wheel drive. Rolling such a vehicle often gives drivers a false sense of, oh, ability or security, I guess. They'll drive exactly the same on snow and ice as they would on rain damp or dry pavement, for a few feet anyway. Then someone pushes them off to the side of the road, street, freeway and they abandon their cars. So drivers who know how to drive in such conditions, such as my DH who was raised in Montana where the snow doesn't melt, it just wears out, has to thread carefully through the abandoned cars to get home. He, too, drives an SUV, his QX4 which he operates perfectly in all kinds of road conditions.

I don't take my Red Therapy out on slick days because the little roadster is like a pig on ice and I was raised in Arizona. Snow/ice driving tends to freak me. My friend Darcy, who drives Black Beauty the Lexus sports convertible, got caught in this storm. Everything was good and fine downtown Renton when I called her to say it was snowing like fury up here in the Highlands. By the time she got to the Highlands, the snow and cars had piled up and people were driving so crazy, she couldn't get BB to maintain forward momentum. They pushed her off to the side of the road and her DH rescued her in his Jeep. He's from Omak, WA up near the Canadian border so can also snow drive. However, when he and his son went to retrieve Darcy's BB yesterday, it got stuck twice and had to be pulled out by his son in the Jeep before they got the car home. Goes to show the car one drives may determine where one may drive. Perhaps if my DH had sallied forth in Red Therapy that fine morning, he might have found himself beside the road and hoofing it home, too.

Emma the Airedale, pictured above, had no problem getting around in the snow. She just plows ahead of her feet by sticking her nose down in the stuff and shovels a path around the yard. She eats as much of it as she can, too, so no worries about snow dunes on either side of her trail, though one has to watch out where the Airedale goes and not eat that yellow snow.

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