Ji-Soo and Ginna give up

Ji-Soo and I were supposed to drive to Rochester this morning. When we woke up the sky was clear blue. The blizzard was over. We ate breakfast, showered, packed and headed out, knowing that we would have to dig the car out. Digging the car out only took about 20 minutes even with the three foot drifts. What we were not expecting, however, was for the road that the car was parked on to be unplowed and covered with 1.5 ft of snow. We went back inside.

Back inside I got grumpy. Why couldn't we buy snow shovels and dig a path for the car out to the paved road? We had just given up! We had run from the adventure! We were so close! Although Ji was not as eager I to spend hours shoveling snow, he did agree to bundle up again and give it a shot.

Step One: Find a snow shovel. Result: Failure.
We asked at the front desk but he said he had to use it. We went to a hardware store and they were sold out. We tried to find a second hardware store and decided we would not pay more than $35 for a snow shovel, imagining that with such demand they could jack the prices.

On our shovel hunting expedition we passed:
-about ten cars stuck in the street
-plows sitting on side streets not willing or able to plow thru three foot drifts that had accumulated
-a city truck stuck, fishtailing dangerously close to a parked car.
-people of all types out in the streets shoveling out cars, rocking stuck cars
-traffic jams caused by cars stuck in intersections
-a car who took a turn too fast and slammed into a snow bank
-tons of Jewish kids shoveling sidewalks all over the neighborhood
-a man with a plastic snow shovel, snapped in half
-cars that had gotten stuck halfway into or out of a parking spot and were then abandoned

This is when I realized that even if we were able to dig a path for the car to get out of the unplowed road, there was still real potential disaster. We never found the second hardware store. I said to Ji: "You were right. Let's go home and watch movies."