Snow day!

We never get snow day in Saskatchewan! Even with a blizzard going, the most we can usually expect is that people who live in the country can go home early. The rest of us are expected to stay at work and make our way home as we can at 5:00. Not today, though! We're becoming wimps, just like the rest of the world.

Turns out it's a good thing, too. It took me about 50 minutes to drive a mile, and I got stuck six times (only had to be pushed/dug out twice, though). I've parked in front of my house because there's no way I'd make it through the alley to the garage, which means that tomorrow morning I'm going to have to dig myself out before I can go to work. Hopefully they'll have had a chance to clear the snow on the street by that time, though.

My parking job was pretty impressive, too. I knew that if I slowed down at all, I'd get stuck, because the undercarriage of my car was already plowing through the snow. So I drove up the street full speed to approximately where I wanted to park, threw the wheel to the right, and slid to a stop against the curb like a skier. The car is perfectly positioned, and you can see the trail it left behind through the snowbank.