Slip Sliding Away

The lesser used streets in our fair Town are pathetic at best since the winterly storm hit us. Our street in particular is covered with ice and ruts making driving treacherous. Yesterday our furnace repairman came to check our new furnace. Before he even arrived his van got stuck in the middle of the street and couldn't move. Along came another motorist upon the scene and slid into the repair man's van. Only minor damage, but after flagging down other motorists for help they freed the stuck van in time to see another motorists sailing down the street in a precarious fashion. The repair man ask the driver which way she was originally going only to learn it was the opposite direction of which her vehicle was facing.

This morning my wife started gazing out the window, so being curious, I asked her what was going on outside. Well another vehicle was over the curb in the neighbors front yard with the tail end still in the street. Once again we had a stuck vehicle, but traffic just kept coming and they would fishtail but get by somehow until a nice brown ban spun completely around coming to rest against a legally parked car opposite of the stuck vehicle. It was time to call the police department as my wife had already called the street department and got no answer, oh well it was before 8:30am.

It was interesting that the command center did not ask if anybody was hurt, but they did want to know if our car had been struck. No, our vehicles are in the driveway, hopefully safe from the street traffic. I wonder if it had been our vehicle if we would have been instructed to exchange information and then come into the station.

The driver of the van went up to the neighbors house to see if they owned the car, then left a note on the parked car which had been bumped and then she got into her van and went off to school or home with her children. In the mean time other vehicles were slowly passing the commotion until a male driver got out and helped the original stuck vehicle off of the curb.

Fifteen minutes after my wife's phone call, and after everything had been cleared the police arrived. The officer did get out and look at the struck vehicle and noted the note attached to the windshield. I had finally gotten dressed and was headed to work and stopped to relay what I had seen, not sure it was of any worth as no questions were asked of me by the officer.

Later this morning my wife called to say a salt truck had been down the street. I went home for lunch and after sliding all the way from Fell to my house asked my wife if the salt truck had spread any salt, she replied, well I didn't see any coming out.

Well, my Normal Back Yard is a safe haven for the squirrels and birds, wouldn't want them out front! Too Dangerous!