..but I am going to plug the Forester in this blog. 

Colorado has been getting a lot of snow this year.  Sometimes the news reports get the masses fired up by comparing the oncoming weather system to Armageddon, or WWII, or something like that.  Usually when they make these grandeur claims, we get a slight breeze and a few flakes of snow.  That’s what happened a couple of weeks ago.

Apparently in order to avoid embarrassment again, the weather stations and newspapers casually mentioned that we “might see a bit of snow” and that “a storm system was going to hit somewhere in the Rockies.”  It was buried deep on page 13 or mentioned briefly just after some update on the ghost of Anna Nicole.  So what is it doing now?  Blizzarding.  White out. 

I left my laptop at work yesterday because I didn’t think I would need it today to work from home.  I’d like to blame the weather people on this, but I can’t really do that.  This is the second time over the season that I have left my laptop at work just before a serious snow storm hit the area.  But this post is not about forgetting, luckily!  It’s about the importance of all-wheel drive.

So on my way back home from work this morning, the roads were already a lot worse than they had been on the way down.  I was driving carefully, as was everyone else on the road.  There was one semi-visible lane on Highway 24 West.

Then the lady two cars ahead of me spun around.  The truck between us managed to go off the road to the left.  The lady in the tan Honda was now headed toward me.  The expression on her face let me know that she was really not doing this on purpose.  So I drove myself into the ditch.  (If you are ever in this situation, go in the ditch.  It’s a lot better than hitting someone or getting hit.  The ditch is a much safer option)  The lady managed to slow herself and turn around.  Of course she just went on her merry, slippery way.  Jerk.  Didn’t even bother to check on anyone and she had forced two cars off the road.  I hate to be a jerk about it, but I hope she gets a flat tire or something. 

 So there I was in the ditch.  It wasn’t the world’s deepest ditch or anything, but in a different car I would have had a hard time even thinking about getting out.  With just a couple of tries my Forester was able to get out and get back on the road.  I love my car.  I am really glad that lady didn’t run into it.