Snowboarding in the car

Just can’t win today.

Left on time for my gym session and a post-gym meeting this evening and slid the car gracefully into the ditch going downhill to the bottom of the mountain. Wasn’t even going fast, just turned the wheel to the right as I started to go downhill and the car continued to go in the original direction despite the steering wheel. I must’ve slid about 200 metres down the hill, ending burying the car in a snowbank at the side of road in this really huge shower of snow as the nose of the car ploughed into it. If I hadn’t been trying to wrestle the car back onto the road I could have really appreciated what a cinematic wipeout it actually was. I imagine it was quite visually stunning from the outside with all the snow flying everywhere.

Anyhow, no damage done and I just felt incredibly stupid over the whole slow motion slide into the verge. I couldn’t reverse out as the nose of the car was buried in the packed deep into the snow well past the front wheels to say nothing of the fact only my right back tire was the only one still on the road.

A truck driver who saw me go in gave me a ride back to the house and I asked a nice neighbour with a big truck to yank me out which took all of one try once we got the chains connected. But decided to call it a night. The freezing rain coming down has now been made a weather warning for the entire region and it is obviously very icy, so I’m skipping the steering committee meeting tonight and the getting back to the gym after the flu can wait one more day till tomorrow.

First time I’ve ever gone in the ditch despite years of winter driving.

Special thanks to my neighbour MI and the good samaritan truck driver Chris who gave me a lift back home to grab help.