LadyJeepFreak
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Well the storm was quite a hit in MD. There are millions of us without power still but mine is back on thank god.
I have never seen such sustained winds, ours were up to 60 most the day yesterday and there are so many roofs and tree branches down. IT's a huge mess, even in my yard.
My brother lives in a trailor closer to the ocean than me, towards the end of the storm but still in the thick of it he started losing windows. We were stable here so I drove down, about 20 mins' to help him with his stuff.
After the storm wound down we took a ride in the JEEP for damage control, to see which roads were blocked, etc. We were all supposed to work today.
Humm, well things were going just fine and we got brave and decided to check out the swamp roads we drive on often just for fun. They are dirt, although public bypass roads.
First road was fine, second was touch and go but there's no turning around on those roads. We removed a couple of trees and even had one held up for us while we got through it. Then! (here comes my stuck-I am so good at this now I tell you).
I veered off the main area of the road JUST A TAD, to go around a huge tree down and viola got myself in a rut along this ditch and bank. Well, we tried everything we could think of including putting branches and stuff down to give me traction but all we could do was dig a bigger rut, about 10 feet in length and at least a foot or more deep.
In the end, I decided it was just getting worse. The wind picked back up and the rain and I wanted to get outta those swamps. We decided to lock her up and leave her stranded. I (scared as hell) walked the swamp with my brother in the pitch black dark listening to the water run beside me and the trees crackle all around. We had the backlight of my cell phone and his lighter (which wouldn't work in the wind) for lighting. We had to walk past this "hanging tree" where they used to hang people. Joy of Joys, I tell you. Made it out finally and called for help and got a ride back home, what fun!
I was cussing at myself the whole time, I couldn't find my flashlight or my shovel in the truck. I guess they inadvertanly found thier way out one day when I wasn't looking. I was also tearing myself up that I hadn't put the new tires I wanted to buy on the jeep yet, those stock ones just aren't good for a whit!
So, this morning we went back to asses the situation. I had her laid up on the ditchbank on the drivers side totally. She was front axle deep or more on the left side and there was no way in hell she would move. We left to see if we could get the trees off the road and get a truck in. The road people said they would get to it eventually so we decided to just regroup and wait a bit.
Two hours later my brother took a truck back there with a friend and found the jeep snatched out already and sitting on the road. Someone apparantly had found her and managed to get the passenger side window unzipped and actually took the time to snatch her out of that mud for me. They broke the glovebox (I assume looking for identification to call me) and left it on the road in gear. I had a note on the dash that said (you will LOVE THIS) "Thank God for the Green Yota-Get some REAL Tires!" My brother reports the tire tracks were about 36 inches deep and the guy he took with him to help thought his truck wouldn't even have been able to get in there and do any good.
So, I thought that very interesting that someone would do that for me, we don't know if it was DNR, Park Rangers, or just someone like us. Alot of trucks ride those roads just for fun daily. The burner was the damn note, because I couldn't argue with him. My tires do SUCK hard.
So, Miss Renegade made the decision for me today. We are getting MT's October 1st and heck with all this getting stuck!
That's my hurricane story, hope you had fun reading it and aren't laughing at me too hard!!!
:lol: :shock: :shock: Lady
