Way back when... 1968 to be exact I was a bartender in My hometown of Eugene, Oregon.
On a otherwise nondescript weeknight about 8 p.m. the customers started coming in wearing snowflakes. As the evening wore on the waning number of customers coming in the door had more and more snow on them. Around 11 p.m. I looked outside and there was about 6" in the parking lot and snowing hard.
I advised the six or eight imbibers that they better leave and head home. Twenty minutes later I called the wrecker who got the last customers out of the "short cut" they took our of the parking lot and into the mud field next door.
I closed the bar, cleaned up and jumped into my 67" VW (with flat belly pan) after chaining it up. There was about ten inches of snow by this time and it was hard to see through the heavy snowfall. Luckily for Me (or so I thought) the City of Eugene owning few if any snow plows had all of their road graders chained up and clearing the main streets and avenues including the one in front of the bar. I hoped in the VW and rammed and sledded My way out of the lot and onto the freshly plowed avenue figuring that I was in fat city as long as I stayed on the main roads home. Did I mention that it was a blizzard and by now at least a foot deep?
Well anyway, the only chink in the armor turned out to be that for the next three hours I followed the fu*king road grader as I couldn't turn off the road ANY PLACE. It was leaving a two foot high berm of snow along the edge so where ever He went... I went.
I eventually got within a quarter mile of My house and ditched the VW in a parking lot and waded on home arriving about 5 a.m. I should have slept on the Pool Table in the Bar.
We got between three and four feet of snow by noon the next day and it absolutely shut down Eugene, Oregon for the next three or four days. It was as if the World had ended... no noise, nobody going anyplace, no work, no going to the store and I am sure there were a sh*t load of kids born nine months later.......
O.R.B., out..................................................