How are our readers holding up in this blizzard? Let us know what’s happening in your area. It is snowing like crazy here in Burlington, VT. Here is a view from our living room window.
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6About the Author
Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003). In 2010, Besen was awarded the “Visionary Award” at the Out Music Awards for organizing the American Prayer Hour, an event which shined a spotlight on the role American evangelicals played in the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
My story is from several years ago. I was living on an acreage 40 miles away from the city where I owned some rental properties. It was the end of the month and I needed to go collect rent unfortunately a heavy blizzard came in and my car couldn’t make it through all of the snow on my 1/8th mile long driveway. I spent the day shovelling it so I could get it out and went to bed that night thinking I’d drive in in the morning. Overnight it blizzarded again and I spent the next day shovelling, got it about half done, went to bed and the next day while I was shovelling it blizzarded again. This went on from the end of Feburary until about March 15th. I’d spend six or eight hours shovelling, it’d blizzard again and I’d be back to square one. When I finally did get out at the middle of March people kept asking me if I just got back from a vacation in Hawaii or someplace. I’d spent so much time shovelling in the winter sun I’d gotten a dark tan as people from Saskatchewan do after a winter vacation to some tropical destination.
Here’s a couple of pictures from what it was often like at my acreage in winter.
Here’s my husband’s (boyfriend at the time) stuck 4 wheel drive truck
This is what it was like after we got out
I used to do all this shovelling by hand. That snowbank on the left in the second picture is where I shovelled snow away from the wind to minimize how much the access road drifted in. By the end of the winter it’d typically be 75 feet long and 2 feet above my 5′ 11″ head.
I’m actually a bit disturbed by how little snow Denver has been getting this winter.
Worst storm for me-many, many years ago (early 90′s ), The snow was so high, I couldn’t get my front door open. I actually had to call in work to say I couldn’t go. I told them I was sick because it just sounded less ridiculous than, “I can’t get out of my house”.
We’re going to Palm Springs midweek. I hope to be far away from contact with any snow!
Priya, what state do you live in? I want to be sure to avoid it during the winter! :)
Paul, I live in Saskatchewan, so as long as you remain an American you’re safe, lol.