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Not a Wolly Mammoth to be Found
This evening I spent the better part of an hour attempting to dig my car out of a sheet of ice so that I can use it tomorrow morning. This being my 6th year in St. Louis, I've gotten somewhat accustomed to the cold, but this is the first year that the ice on my car was thick enough to skate on.
Chipping away at the thick ice made me feel like those guys that discovered a frozen caveman, although without the proper equipment. Sadly I did not find a Neanderthal man or saber-toothed tiger when I was finally able to scrape it all away, just a car in need of gas.
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I had to use a CD jewel case to scrape my car out, as my family owns no more appropriate of a tool.
Posted by: Nathan at January 25, 2004 10:51 PM
Ouch, I at least hope it came from a bad CD.
Posted by: Chris Hill Festival at January 25, 2004 11:08 PM
Chris, this is your sixth year in Saint Louis, but only your second year with a car. I can't imagine you spent lots of time chipping cars out from under sheets of ice before you got your car.
Posted by: david at January 26, 2004 8:28 AM
This is my fourth year with a car, and I'll back him up on this one - this is the worst ice-over I've seen since January of 1999, when it rained one day, snowed the next, and then got down to about 4 degrees so everything was coated over in half an inch of solid ice.
You'll notice, other dear St. Louisians, that the plows didn't hit the streets until after noon, even though the ice had been precipitating since 3 AM.
Posted by: Brian at January 26, 2004 10:58 AM
True I just got the car, but this is definitely the worst ice since we've been here. It has been colder, and it has snowed more, but never this icy.
Posted by: Chris Hill Festival at January 26, 2004 11:07 AM
The real question is why there still isn't any salt on the streets. We're supposed to get 3 to 5 inches of snow tonight as well, so you'd think a little preparation might be underway, but that doesn't seem like its the case.
Posted by: david at January 26, 2004 11:21 AM
I noticed that as well. I can understand why they didn't plow until yesterday afternoon when the snow had stopped, but usually they lay salt down before the icy weather. Even on campus, where normally they put salt down even if there's no precipitation in the forecast, there is only salt on a few patches of walkway and none on the roads.
Posted by: Chris Hill Festival at January 26, 2004 11:44 AM
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