Well with little or no choice we drove to Salem on Monday to pickup our Slat Wall. We rented the U-haul and headed south to Newport then cut across to Corvallis then up I-5, we were about 9 miles from Salem when most of the cars and trucks started pulling over to the shoulder to put on chains, we had not seen any snow on the highways and it was raining at the time. Well we kept going and about 1 1/2 miles later we were driving on hard packed snow and snow has falling all around us, traffic had slowed to a reasonable 30 mph so we just backed off and kept going. Well we made to our destination with out incident and got into position to load the truck, there was about 3" of packed snow and ice in the parking lot and a lot of people were having trouble getting around.
It took Stephanie and me longer to load the truck than I had hoped, and during that time another 6" of fresh snow had fallen, so I put the chains on the U-haul and we pulled out, back onto I-5, we drove on the chains for about 10 miles then the pavement was clear enough to take the chains off.
It was almost 6 p.m. when we got to Albany so we found a motel and a restaurant and stopped for the night.
Tuesday morning there was a dusting of fresh snow on the ground so we went to breakfast the Home Depot, then headed for home, the roads were clear al the way home.
So I pulled the F-100 out of the building, and we unloaded the U-haul.
While we were loading the truck in Salem we found a table, a podium and a couple of wire carts that we will be able to use.
While we were gone Daryl had been working on tile for the upstairs.
Now on Christmas Eve we will have dinner with the Kids and tomorrow we will venture in to be with my brother if the weather co-operates.
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