It's been a day, or maybe a day and a bit

[sraun]

For my fellow Twin Citians - is it raining where you are?

As some of you know, we had a run-in with a guard-rail on our way home from Christmas with iraunink's mother last night. Mad dash across three lanes of highway, both front & back bumpers hit the guard-rail. No deployment of air-bags, a small bump on my wife's head, a broken finger-nail on my part. Just a single car accident - we were in a traffic gap. We've been watching for signs of concussion, haven't seen any.

We decided we really didn't want to leave the house today. Which was a problem, as we really need to go grocery shopping, so there wasn't much to eat. Fortunately, we found a Chinese restaurant that was delivering (Star Moon, near 48th & Chicago).

About 5pm, I declared that on second thought, I really wanted to move the car today. By Minneapolis Snow Emergency Rules, I'm not allowed to park in front of my house starting at 8am tomorrow, until either 8pm or the street is plowed "to the curb". Which means 8pm, because there's no way they're getting to the curb again this winter, which means I'm not going to be able to tell when. (OK, if it's a work-day, I'll park in front of my house when I get home about 7:30pm - but that's not tomorrow.) The plow did go down our street today - leaving about a two-foot wall of snow between my car and the street. Very wet snow. And the overnight forecast calls for lows in the mid- to low- 20's. That wall is going to turn rock-solid. So, I went out and moved it. Fortunately, the plow didn't leave a wall on the other side of the street!

We do need to make it out tomorrow in time to get the dogs to their hair-cuts at 10am.

I did manage to get my quota of Dragon Cave holiday specials today. Yay!

Comments

[erica-j-stark.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about your accident- glad it doesn't seem to be vary serious. The snowplow came down the center of Wentworth Ave. today too- people could get in and out, but it was very definitely not curb to curb.

[faunhaert.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad it wasn't bad enough
to have the air bags explode
they seem to do worse damage

but you might have them checked
to see if they're faulty

but more importantly
I'm glad you all are ok
its so scary when that happens!

it started snowing again up here!

how many dragons do you have by now?
it must be quite a few

happy holydays

No fun!

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Glad you're all OK.

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

Glad to know you're okay. It rained here for a little while yesterday, more of a kind of melting snow than true rain. I dread going out today because the puddles on the sidewalk and driveway will have frozen. I'm tempted to crawl back in bed for the next few weeks.

[allyra.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Glad it was a minor accident and that you both appear to be (mostly) fine!