Drove my car to the end of the street [View all]

I already know this car (21 Rogue) is no good on snow. It has no wheel drive. I haven't driven it since last Sat. before the snow. I have a storage rental at the end of the street and thought I'd try to get out and drop the Feb. payment off. I was surprised and delighted to get the car out from where it was parked, behind a pile of plowed snow, onto the shy pavement, peeking out from a thin layer of the icy remnants of whatever you want to call the stubborn reminder of a sleet-snow-rain-ice storm. I heard that Eskimos have 1000 names for snow. I bet they don't have one for this crap!

I got down to the motel safely. My residential street is just barely passable. I turned into the lot, which hasn't been treated. The place used to be a motel that the owner converted into low-income housing and the tenants park their cars in the lot. I go in the entrance off my street, near the storage units and drive past most of the units to the drop off box. I was basically wishing my car along, because if I gave it gas, it slid. Maybe it didn't want to be out either. After I put the payment in the box, I usually go out the entrance onto Rt. 7,and turn onto my street, but that entrance is slanted, and I had nightmare visions of sliding into oncoming traffic, or across 4 lanes and on to the mighty Ohio River. So, I put my car in reverse and backed almost all the way back the the entrance I used. I was surprised and delighted to learn that the car is better on ice in reverse than in drive, and if I could get away with it, I'd drive in reverse until the streets are clear! As I reversed, I successfully avoided all of the parked cars, and the porch supports. I got to a space big enough to do a 3 point turn (thank you, my driver's ed. teacher for schooling us on that!) I got turned around and again, wished my car forward, maneuvered between a dumpster and the storage rentals, and back to the street. Naturally, a car was approaching, but I got stopped before the patch of ice that was almost the final hazard between me and home. I got back to my house, and it was a nail biter getting my car parked on the other side of the pile of plowed nightmare rock ice. But we did it, old unreliable and me. I am in, and I will probably reschedule my appt. Tuesday.