Wow! I'm pretty lucky to be alive! I went to Burington this weekend to do a little shopping. We left Friday night and got to Vermont in the evening. After a little stop at the Church street mall and some supper at my favourite restaurant Sweetwaters we went to do some groceries at the Price Chopper. The following morning is when the storm began! We woke up to some wet snow and rain...nothing bad we all thought! We proceeded with our shopping and at around lunch time the weather started to turn into freezing rain. We decided to have a bite to eat and head back a little early. Well let me tell you, we were driving home in what possibly might have been the worst storm in Montreal history! It started with freezing rain that caused our wipers to freeze every 10 minutes. We couldn't see out of the windshield. As we got closer to Montreal, the winds picked up and caused white out conditions. We couldn't even see the car 3 feet in front of us ( I am not even exaggerating)!!! I saw about 5-6 cars in ditches, the car in front of us did a 360 and almost caused us to crash into them. Then we hit the Champlain bridge...there were cars stopped on the bridge and people trying to shovel themselves out...ON THE BRIDGE!!! Passengers were hanging out of cars trying to remove the ice accumulation while the cars were still moving! We saw not even one plow on our 4 1/2 hour drive home! Once we made it back to the west island there was so much snow on the street that even my friends Jeep Cherokee got stuck! If we had been driving in a regular car I don't think I would be alive to tell this story! I'm not kidding when I say it was the scariest drive of my life!
On the bright side...at least I did some good shopping :)
Missa
The best artichoke dip ever!!!
Friday night after supper...all smiles!
A look out our window while we were driving!
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