Kristinn, We all have "Abominable Snow Stories". I've had those days. Fortunately, you made it without incident. Keep it up. Warmest Regards, Jon Page At 10:29 PM 03/02/2000 +0000, you wrote: > > >Where to begin? > > > >The weather has been pretty interesting this last week. The last weekend I >went to a town about 45 minutes away for a concert tuning. The church that >bought this new Steinway C from Hamburg was holding the concert in >celebration of the new instrument. Having tuned for them almost >exclusively the last two years I decided to do this one for free. > >I started on my way around noon. The road goes over pretty high country, >and the weather on the moor was very bad, heavy snowing etc. > >I finished tuning the grand and got on my way back. I drove for about 25 >minutes the same way back and started noticing some jeeps in trouble with >the snow. >Visibility was zero. >I figured this way was out of the question for my non-jeepish Toyota. > >So, I turned back. When I got down from the moor again the police had >already closed everything down. > >I decided to take the only other way to town (apart from driving the other >way around the country). The weather there was also bad but I got through >-- just barely-- some two thousand people got stuck on this road just >after I got through and had to stay there for up to 14 hours to be rescued. > Nobody left their keys in the cars so the road was clogged up for the next >day or two. > > >Well, yesterday I drove a fifteen-minute way to a tuning. An easy job, I >was even offered a wonderful salmon dinner. > >After that there was just the way back, eerily similar to the weekend. >First of all there was a car stuck in the exit of a roundabout and I had to >wait for that one to pull loose. > >"Whoops, the gas light has been glowing for a good while now." > >I smashed my way through the piles of snow in front of the gas station. >Only the self-service part of the station was open so I couldn´t make >anyone else than me suffer out in the weather. After banging open the >frozen lid on the car I went to pay. I had to wipe the snow off the >computer screen and stick my car key in the bill-slot to get the ice out. > >I took a bill worth 1000 IKR ($14) and started putting it in. My fingers >were numb by that time and I accidentally dropped the bill, which, sure >enough, disappeared up on the roof of the station. The next bill I took >was only a 500 IKR (in case I also dropped that one, it would have been >less of a loss). That one went in easily so I proceeded pumping gas into >my craving vehicle. It all went fine up to 70 IKR ($1) -- either the pump >was empty or just frozen! >My head also probably froze 'cause I feel rotten today. >So on one dollars worth I got home. > >Other than that there hasn´t been much going on, apart from this week´s >volcanic eruption, of course. > > >Regards from the land of fire and ice, > >Kristinn Leifsson >Reykjavík, Iceland >
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