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Drive with care

Posted on January 31, 2010.

After three days of updating my blog from the confines of my living room and not doing much sliding around, save that spent playing in the yard with the kids and shoveling my driveway, deicing my car and making one trip to my favorite buffet in Moore, I’ve made the trip back to the offices of The Transcript.
It’s driveable, but with care. Here are my experiences from the last couple of days.
• Make sure all the ice is knocked off your car. A big patch from the roof that you leave on may not seem like a big deal until it flies off the back as you’re driving, or, as happened to us, comes loose and slides in one big block down the front windshield as you’re stopping at a stoplight. It’s a miracle the windshield wipers didn’t get torn apart, or worse.
• The main roads are in pretty good shape, but getting to them is an adventure. So whatever the safest way out of your neighborhood is, take it. For me that means going the opposite direction of my eventual destination the first two blocks, but it’s well worth it to only drive two blocks instead of about eight on the nasty stuff.
• Walk carefully. The church parking lot looked pretty decent today but had several really slick patches. Anything you do trying to get in a hurry likely will lead to trouble.
And while I’m talking about church, I now must shamelessly pat my own group on the back. About half the churches we drove by on the way weren’t even open, but St. Andrews United Methodist Church not only was open but had what looked to me like as big or bigger group there than usual.

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