Fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK!!!

[Madrone]

#1 - Car stuck in front of house in snow. Won't move. Can't get out.

#2 - While trying to rock said car from it's stuck place, BOTH Brake and ABS lights come on. And stay on.

#3 - After giving up on car and coming inside I hear loud noise outside. Open the door to find a HUGE slab of wet and heavy snow/ice slid off the roof - effectively blocking me from getting out of the house without some kind of mountaineering gear. We are talking a huge mountain of snow in front of my door that's taller than ME. AND - it's done a nice job, from what I can see, of wedging the front gate in such a way that the only way out is somehow over the fence - the same fence the fucking CAR is wedged against.

#4 - :cry:

[Redstone]

1. Ah, no problem. Just wait a month and a half, and it'll all melt.

Redstone

[malta blue]

2. Wow.

:wow:

That just sucks.

I'm sorry :hug:

[PeaceNikki]

3. Awwwwwwwww

I'm so sorry! :(

I thought of you this AM when I heard on the news that your area was getting pummelled!

I hope things get better! :hug:

[Madrone]

5. Well, considering that research online has shown that both those brake lights being on =

DO NOT DRIVE THE FUCKING CAR NO MATTER WHAT ... they won't be getting better for a long time. The car dealer is over an hour away!!!

Seriously, I wish I knew where the charger was for my camera. There's some epic white stuff out there! I was ALREADY struggling to get in and out of the house before this new massive pile added to it.

[PeaceNikki]

8. That sucks

:(

I hope you're at least still under warranty.

[Fran Kubelik]

4. Time to curl up with a good book.

A nice long book.
Sorry - that sounds terrible. :(

[GOPisEvil]

6. Sigh...

:hug:

Ask Oscar about how to get out by crawling on the snow and over the fence. ;)

Hope the brakes are nothing series. x(

[Madrone]

7. Seriously, I think I'm fucked when it comes to the brakes.

That's where the :cry: came from - the rest I can deal with. John can take me to work, and yank my car out like he did last time. Work can bring a ginormous piece of machinery over and dig out my parking spot (if they can find somewhere to dump the snow) --- but when I looked online it said both those brake lights being on mean something BAD and no matter what you shouldn't drive it. OMG ... that's not something I can deal with right now. And how much do you suppose that shit would cost to have towed to fucking YAKIMA? Or Bellevue?? A LOT. :cry:

[GOPisEvil]

9. Well, hell.

I guess you can call the dealer tomorrow and see what they say the deal is.

Remember although it goes without saying, I gotcher back.

[Madrone]

10. We've got a lot more snow coming too!

The pass has been closed for ... 2 days? 3? I don't know ... it was closed for 28 hours, opened for 2 yesterday, until an avalanche covered some cars - closed again right then - STILL closed now, and talking about it being closed for another 24! Read:

I-90 - Snoqualmie Pass remains closed due to extreme winter conditions from milepost 34 near North Bend to milepost 106 near Ellensburg. The pass will remain closed for at least the next 24 hours. Due to wet, heavier snow, the avalanche threat has increased. Friday, Feb. 1, at 9 a.m. is the earliest WSDOT will be able to assess the effects of this storm and our ability to reopen the pass. WSDOT will continue to update the Web page with the most current information about the conditions on the pass.


EAST SLOPES OF THE CENTRAL CASCADES OF WASHINGTON-
EAST SLOPES OF THE SOUTHERN CASCADES OF WASHINGTON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLE ELUM...EASTON...ROSLYN...NACHES...
GOLDENDALE...APPLETON...TROUT LAKE...BICKLETON
1215 PM PST THU JAN 31 2008

...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS
EVENING...

A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS
EVENING.

TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 TO 15 INCHES ARE EXPECTED...WITH
HIGHER AMOUNTS NEAR THE CASCADES CREST. ALONG THE SOUTHERN
WASHINGTON CASCADE EAST SLOPES...SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS WILL
OCCUR PRIMARILY WEST OF HIGHWAY 97. FREQUENT WINDS OF 15 TO
25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL CREATE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW
AND REDUCE VISIBILITY AT TIMES.

A WINTER STORM WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF
SNOW...SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS
ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS...SO
EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...



ps:
Princess Jenn emailed me earlier said:

How is Oscar? I miss him so much i hate it

how are you?

[GOPisEvil]

11. The Princess is online now, too.

This snow sucks! Not good at all.

I tried looking up your owner's manual online, but apparently Honda doesn't just stick them out there. You can get it, I guess, since you're an owner. I have found lots of people with ABS issues, but no one with the problem that you have on the Element owner's board.

Edit - spoke too soon. A guy said he was in stop and go traffic during a blizzard for 4 hours and his ABS and brake lights came on. He said, it went off and the problem has not returned. It might be that all the stop and go trying to maneuver the E made the brakes overheat. If you can get out tomorrow morning, start it up and see if the lights are off.

[Madrone]

12. That would be sweet! If it's just the overheating thing. VERY possible.

I actually replied to the princess this time -- here:

He is awesome. He LOVES Bodhi, and Bodhi loves him. They are pretty gay,
actually. He acts like a little packrat. His "hide spot" is under the
glider cage. He takes ALL the toys under there, and stashes them back in
the corner where Bodhi can't easily reach them. If Bodhi has a toy and
drops it - Oscar will grab it and RUN for the glider cage. I gave them
some apple on Sunday to see if they'd eat it. They wouldn't. I was doing
something else so I didn't pick the apple pieces up off the floor right
away. When I went back to get them they were gone. I was wondering if I
was crazy -- Did I pick them up and not remember? Or did they give in and
eat them? Later I was picking stuff up off the floor and saw that Oscar
and grabbed the apples when I wasn't paying attention and stashed them in
his spot under the cage. HAHA! Sometimes I find my socks and slippers
under there too.

Another funny thing is if Oscar doesn't come back right away when I let
him out (he almost always comes back QUICKLY) and he doesn't come when I
call I'll ask Bodhi "Where is it?" and tell him to "Go get it!" and let
him out. He RUNS out, gets Oscar, and brings him right back to the door.

They are really weird. Anyway - you don't have to leave him with me. Bodhi
will be upset if he's gone but he'll get over it eventually. He's not
always waiting for you to come home anymore ... although him having Oscar
has helped with that I think. He still trips if we're in the car and
someone is walking down the road though - because he remembers going in
the car to pick you up when you're walking. Thankfully that almost never
happens because I'm not taking him in the car hardly ever.

Oscar also knows - Stay, wait, and down. He knows the word "treat" now,
and he is absolutely GREAT about the crate.

He still likes to play the high drama "OMG please don't BEAT me" thing
though...LOL

Oh! One more thing - he and Iago PLAY! It's really cute - and Oscar LOVES
sleeping with all the kitties. I caught him and Iago spooning before.


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End of transmission. Glad to hear she's online - that means she's not out tweakin'. At the moment. She never answered my message though.

[GOPisEvil]

13. Your dog caught teh gay!

He and Oscar are really cute together. Bodhi really does need someone he can play with and your kitties don't want to fit the bill.

I think Iago and Oscar playing is REALLY cute. I wish I could see that.

[Madrone]

14. They're funny :)

So much looooooooooooooove between them it's ridiculous.

WEIRD, isn't it? That email after what we were JUST talking about last night? If I didn't know better I'd think she was privy to that conversation.

[GOPisEvil]

15. I know! If you still had a home phone...

...I'd accuse her of finding Jeff and getting him to tap it. :scared: