the great snow escape of march 29 '08

so i went to veg fest with jessie today. it was pretty rockin. i went in there really hungry and walked out a satisfied man. there were tons of samples of vegetarian food and pretty much all of it was delicious. i got like 3 full bottles of this really awesome tea too. and jessie signed up for washington vegetarians and got a pcc tote bag full of awesome food and stuff. it only cost 20 bucks and there was at least $100 worth of stuff in the tote. i really recommend going, even if you arent vegetarian. its only 5 bucks to get in and you can really make a meal out of it.

after that we went to the mall, bellevue square, to cheese a bit and just hang or whatever. had dinner. noticed was it snowing. it wasnt sticking though. aint no thang right?

wrong.

as soon as we got on 520 there was snow everywhere. my windows were foggging up completely. cold air isnt working. snow is coming down hard, i cant see anything. i turn on hot air full fucking blast. jessie wipes the windows with her coat. it really saved the day.

snow only got worse getting towards redmond. we had two options:

1. take the lake road to the plat.
or
2. take fall city road.

we chose fall city.

snowy as hell. going like 25mph the whole time. we get to the gray barn. the heat is still on full blast because if i turn it any lower my windows start fogging completely again. its been almost an hour and me and jessie are sweating our hoohas off. its time to turn right, up the huge hill. cars are just stopped. blocking the way. i had the feeling maybe i could have made it, but there were people all over the road and i didnt wanna risk it, so i turn around and head towards the lake road.

lake road is much nicer. barely any snow on it. minimal slow downs. mind you its been like an hour and a half and the heat is still full blast. it was seriously over 90 degrees in the car. my pits were soaked. we get to inglewood hill road (whatever that street at the light is called) to make a left. things are going ok. we get about 1/4 of the way up. same situaiton. everybody is stopped. i park the car. we start walking in the 6 inches of snow. jessie has plastic flats on. no socks. she takes her shoes off and goes barefoot because it was actually more comfortable for her. everybody is abandoning their cars. it was like some creepy apocalypse movie or something. exactly like war of the worlds. and trees started to snap from the weight of the snow. it was balls ass crazy. after about 20 minutes of walking we see my dad and he takes us home. we picked up some lady on the way and took her home to her 4x4 so she could pick up her husband and baby waiting in the car. she told us we were the 5th car that she saw. the other ones just went around her and passed. what the fuck sammamish? youre too awesome to pick up old ladies off the side of the road in your bmw suv's now?

anyways. what a crazy day. i dont really expect everybody to read this far. i just needed to document this story while it was fresh in my mind. i wish i had pics. anybody else have crazy march snowday stories?



*UPDATE*
got a call from the cops around 1am. told me to move my car or they were gonna tow it. i guess the cops can get all your info from your license plate. anyways i drive down there with my dad. we find the car and start driving back. no joke we didnt even drive 100 feet and there was a tree laying across the road. what the heck. that means the tree missed us by a matter of seconds. we had to drive down the lake road and all the way around to redmond fall city. this day could not get any crazier.