Thanks for the vibes, and an update
The update - my husband's van is finally running and her has chains for it, so he is trying to get to work where he will probably stay for a while as we have a storm coming. He will try and make it back for christmas (it's supposed to warm up the day before). We are pretty screwed money-wise right now, but so are many many people. He will stay with his boss until he can drive back.
My son and I are without a car but town is semi-walkable (three and a half miles) if we need anything. Hopefully my neighbor was able to buy chicken food (she is almost out and we are out and the chickens all need food, especially in this weather).
I am hoping to get a ride to town before christmas so I can buy the food I was going to prepare for dinner, but if not I can probably figure something out. It all seems so crazy. I grew up in the midwest where snow like this was no big deal. But we had "snow tires" and there were snowplows and they salted the roads and there were no real hills. So a different story entirely. I have lived out here for 17 years and never seen weather like this. We usually get a day or two of light snow and in a bad year, four or five days.
But we have firewood, we still have power and water, we can always hitchhike - the woman who picked us up yesterday when we were walking home had a carseat, so I was able to accept without feeling weird.
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about the car, your husband really needs it for work. I feel you on the tight christmas, I hope you all catch a break before then.
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Must be a big relief to have the van back running and useable. Sending more vibes for nice people to help you get what you need! Snow is always difficult, especially in a place that just isn't set up for it.
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I remember that about western WA. Being from ND, I was used to a foot of snow in the winter, you just DEAL, buck up, dig out your car and go along your merry way. Ha, not when I was in Olympia. The whole town just completely SHUT DOWN if there was an inch or two of snow, and it really did make it impossible. The infrastructure just wasn't in place to make snow livable.
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you single handedly shifted the energy around you, everything that you listed in your post is a positive.
be proud of this!
you had several hardcore challenges facing you, the car (
situation, being #1.
the bonus: the neighbor helping, and the cool lady who picked you guys up. they showed you how much people care about your family. you're never alone, the universe is taking care of business.
you're going to have a smashing christmas and a delicious chrismas dinner.
(i've been wanting to use the word smashing all day!).
and my own 2 cents? i personally wouldn't feel bad if you needed to hitch a ride and there's not a carseat in sight.
i love you - you're a strong person.
hearts,
christyxdc
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oh yeah, he does need it. I was all for him taking it and staying away. It was mostly my idea, and really if he can work and we have one car then 2/3 of the problem is gone, but it's still weird feeling stranded. We are doing good though, and I got to town with a neighbor to buy food for christmas, so we are mostly there!