Every
driver out here has his favorite SNOW story(or several)and here is one from driver Skip...
1993,I
had a job after Christmas,I loaded out of Atlanta that was late(loading)along
with about another 24,000 pounds of stuff going to Albuquerque,Denver,and parts
unknown(getting old,don't remember)that was going to Pagosa
Springs,Colorado....You guys ever look where Pagosa Springs is?Right at the
bottom of Wolf Creek Pass(yes,that same pass from CW McCall’s song).It seems
it's in a bowl.....8000 foot mountains all the way around,except one small pass
south west of town..Funny thing about this is,when fronts come up from the gulf
of BAJA,they can't get past any of those mountains except the small pass down
there and the fronts just go around and around....DUMPING SNOW ON Pagosa
Springs....WELL???
I
managed to drop a piano in Albuquerque on Sunday,early,and drove on up to
Pagosa.I found a place to park on the east end of town...Great place to
park,Restaurant had Elk Steaks,beer store across the street,video tape store
next door...Life is good...only to find out a MAJOR winter storm is due in
tonight.....DANG!Whutever...The next morning I woke up and climbed out of the
closet,to discover,the hood on my truck was so covered in snow,it blocked the
windshield....DANG,looks like no drop today....I put on my snow suit and
climbed out of the truck into 4 feet of new powder....and called the shipper at
8am only to get reamed by her for not being there last week.Gets better,there's
so much snow,the town is shut down and all I can do is watch video's and eat
Elk steaks....LIFE IS GOOD!
4
Days later(gained 10 pounds there food was good)they had plowed one lane up the
hill to her neighborhood,and 1 lane up to her house..My trailer cannot make any
of the turns and we get a shuttle truck to drop....I got it done and the went
back to the same parking spot......Wolf Creek pass had some snow slides and was
not open......For another 4 days....Dang!They had to blast the pass and when I
finally got through there it was driving in a tunnel,high side was 16 feet of
snow wall,low side was 12 feet....Wish I had pics.....
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