Crazy Snow

Uwwaaaaa it took me 3 hours to get home from work today (it normally takes 45 mins)!!!!

The snow storm was so bad! I've never been so scared driving in my life! So much for the cute new car. I've now realized that the tyres on my new car are the sporty kind. Yeah, sporty - nice to look at, nice to race in, but not good for driving in the snow at all.

We're actually under a snow storm warning. I was told to leave the office one hour early, but huh - as if it made that much difference. My manager actually left at 2pm!! I should've just left right after him. It's a weird kind of feeling for me. Kinda excited that such a huge winter storm is happening(yes, so huge that even hubby got to leave at 3pm and tomorrow his office is closed!!), but what a horrible emotionally tiring drive it was for me. I couldn't see the lines on the roads, the snow was falling so fast that right after a road was plowed, it was covered right away, and wait for it -- I spun out of control and almost hit the railing!!!! Yes, I was perpendicular to the road! I was reading as many ayats I could remember in my head. I almost wanted to stop at the side of the road and give up driving all the way back home. I just wanted to cry!!! But I persevered and continued my 35kmh drive on the icy road and ignoring the other drivers who obviously had snow tyres on their car coz they were going oh, like 60kmh - just a bit more faster than my little zoom zoom.

Stoopid zoom zoom, with stoopid sporty tyres. I was driving so slow I felt like a snail! And after spinning out, and crawling on the 35 miles road (I swear it took 30 minutes to drive even one mile!), I finally reached home and got stuck in the snow that accumulated around the parking garage!!!!!! The stooopid snow plowers were so useless - they didn't even plow the 2 feet snow around our condo area that I got stuck! Nasib baik for hubby. He took out his handy snow shovel and dug my car out. He got in the driver's seat, slammed on the pedal to accelerate and there was my zoom zoom mazda spinning left and right with the back tires still stuck in the snow. Spin and spin and spin like a little fish with its fins stuck in a mouth of a bigger fist. Finally it got out of the foot deep snow.

Finally my zoom zoom was free from the snow. The snow plow came a bit too late.

Finally!!!! After 3 hours and some minutes later I got to cry in hubby's arms while I thanked Allah for keeping me safe and making sure my zoom zoom car was not damaged. Never again!!!!!! Tomorrow hubby's driving me to work in our Accord. Yes, Accord not sporty, but practical.

The roads may be clearer, but the pathway to the front door was still covered with a foot of snow.