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letterk, 2.30pm, snow storm hits out of nowhere.
3.30 radio announces that the school buses cant run, its not safe for them to drive.
4.00 every parent in letterkenny tries to drive to the school at once, i'm trying to drive from atlanic homecare to work, without the radio on.
4.20 everyparent in letterk realises that a ford focus is not an ideal vehicle for hill climbing in snow
4.30 complete town in gridlock, completely.
4.40, i'm about 500m from atlantic homecare, coincidentially i have my da's 4x4 for the week, so i'm towing cars up a 50m stretch of hill thats impassible to normal cars, considering the town was frozen it was something to do.
5.40 abandon ship, walk home, have tea
6.20 go back to check on it, no movement at all, towed more guys and taxi'd some old lady home as her petrol ran out. told boy racer i didnt have a rope because he had dopey race tires on his honda civic so it wouldnt move in anydirection
7ish, route from work to flat reopens, got car home. entire journey was 1km.
9.15
snow pretty much gone.
my brother in law mailed me earlier to say he couldn't drive home from Letterkenny and had to sleep in a mates house tonight
someone should tell him the roads are clear again i guess