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     The weather is turning cold here in AR, and the heat is on inside homes and businesses.  Already bringing in the plants about two weeks ago, so they wouldn’t freeze.  The nights are crisp and the moon is out, and it appears that it is snowing in the Mountains out west, and up around the Great Lakes…….I MISS SNOW! 

     I do miss snow, and I would be lying if I said I didn’t miss Trucking.  I really do miss Trucking, I miss the mountains the most and the Snow.  It has already snowed in the places we used to go, like Denver, and Idaho, the mountains in New Mexico, and even Mass. 

     It was 2 years ago this past October that we were stuck in the Blizzard in Denver of which I do have pictures.  It was a Frozen wonderland, and we were right in the middle of all that in a big truck.  What was so strange was that we left Memphis TN and strolled all the way across to Denver and only hit a small patch of bad rain in Kansas.  As we made our way into Denver the temperature was dropping steady and as we pulled into our delivery point the temperature kept dropping and about midnight it started to flurry.  I know this because I was the one who drove the last leg of the trip into Denver.

      We took the dog out and let her take care of her business, and then  put up our curtain, locked the doors and went to bed.  Woke up early about 7 am.  and there was snow about 2 ft. deep, and the wind was rocking the truck all night long which helped to lull us to sleep.  But it was still snowing and blowing, and there were no snow plows out on the side streets.  My co-driver, best friend and hubby got out and trekked into the building to see what door we needed to be in, thinking they would get us unloaded.  He came out and proceeded to see if the truck would get through the snow and backed into a door.  We sat there in utter amazement of this blizzard going on outside our truck, and it kept putting snow down, and blowing at a gusty 40 mph.   The truck rocked so bad just sitting there in the door, I almost felt seasick.  

      Well we sat there and sat there, and sat there, it seemed like we had been there forever and now the snow  was almost 4ft. deep.  We had been docked in a door for the whole day, as the blizzard raged on.  Thank goodness I always kept some food on the Truck, and we could go inside the building to use the facilities.   But then when it was time to take the dog out, and the snow was up to the running board steps, she refused to get out.  We asked the people inside to help us dig out a path so we could take the dog out.  They then fired up the Snow Blower they had and helped  us out, and tried to dig out around the front of the truck so when it was time to leave we could.

      Well they had no electric the storm had knocked that out, and they could not unload us.  We sat there another night, and the storm eased up through the night.  The next day, we woke up to another winter wonderland, most of the snow had been blown back over the path, and they had to start over digging out. They fired up the Snow Blower and  It took almost 1/2 of that day to finally get unloaded. Then we couldn’t get out of the door we were Frozen in the door.   We had to put the chains on just to move the truck a few feet.  Move and get stuck, move and get stuck, this took up until around 4 pm on the second day…….

      It was stressful at the time, but we survived.  That is where we met other drivers for our company, and made some new friends.  Finally around 6 pm that second night we got over to the Truck Stop and got a good hot meal, and a shower.  We ate with our new friends, and had a good visit……and we are still friends today.  This was not the first time I had been stuck in a snowstorm and I doubt it will be the last.  We finally were able to leave Denver 3 days after arriving, and I got some cool pictures of the snow, new friends, the dog romping in the snow, and of course the Ice on the way out of Colorado, that kept the roads closed.  I really do miss Trucking. 

      Have a great day! 

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