Give me your phone number, I'm calling you if I ever get into a bind!
>From: Hylander6@aol.com
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>Subject: DML: Nightmare Drive!!!
>Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:22:45 EST
>
>Hello,
> With all of the messages about road trips recently on DML, I thought I
>might throw my adventure last Saturday morning out for all to enjoy.
> It 2:15am, I'm sound asleep. The phone rings, my in-laws are both very
>elderly, so a phone call in the middle of the night usually means trouble.
>Turns out to be a freind of mine who lives 30 miles to the north of me. He
>sounds kind of sheepish, as he explains the run in he has had with a
>Missouri
>Highway Patrolman. He was arrested for speeding in incliment and DWI, and
>needed to be driven home. OK, I've never gotten into this kind of trouble,
>but what are freinds for. He mentions that it is snowing. Well snow is one
>thing Blizzard is something else. The main highway (Highway 63) from
>Jefferson City, to Columbia has about 4-6 inches of snow on it. Driving
>into
>this nightmare made me think of warp drive on Star Trek or something. The
>only way I could make sure I was on the road was to watch the shoulder of
>the
>road where a snowplow had piled up a ridge taller than the snow on the
>road.
>I was basicly blazing a path for others. Thank God for BF Goodrich! Anyway
>a
>normal 30 minute drive took me 2 1/2 hours. As a final note, after I got
>home
>the snow had frozen my emergency brake solid, I had to let it sit in the
>garage for 6 hours till it thawed out. Interesting thing, the weather on
>Wednsday last week was in the 70's on friday night we get 8 inches of snow.
>Go figure, its Missouri!
>
> Chris
>
>
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