Ice Ice Baby (SNOWPOCALYPSE NOW!!!)

Welcome to Hoth.

If you ever wanted to know what it was like to be in "Empire Strikes Back" without any of the cool speeders, AT-ATs or Tauntauns, welcome to the ice/snowstorm of 2011.  The past two days we've been pelted with freezing rain which has encased everything in ice.  Although it LOOKS like snow it's about 4 inches of ice.  There is no give whatsoever when walking or driving on this faux snow and you'd think a 2,000lb car would leave tracks, but no... just a clean slate of untouched white.

Our Honda, we parked outside, was completely covered in ice and I would slowly scrape the ice off of it throughout the day and try to chop away at the ice in the driveway to make some sort of drivable terrain for us to make an exit.  (if needed) 

Once the car was released from it's icy tomb I decided to take some video and pics of what the house and everything looked like.  After taking about two steps into the front yard I slipped and fell completely on my a$$. 

The Thing... it's morphed into a branch!!!

I took some pics of the front and as you can see in the video some of the limbs that fell off of the trees have been encased in ice like "The Thing."  OR IS IT?!  All I know is if I see a helicopter chasing a dog, I'm NOT inviting it in.  I'm staying inside homie. 

I bet when spring rolls around I'm going to find an assortment of cavemen and squirrels on my front lawn.  The museum of natural history is going to have a field day.  I hope Ben Stiller makes a cameo.





Roll film...





As you can tell as the video cut, I slipped and fell on my a$$. Actually, I slowly slid into the ditch and then onto my a$$.  The best part was trying to get OUT of the ditch.  Now I can officially say that I pulled myself out of the gutter.

Take two...

This time I'm thinking, the backyard may be a little safer.  Meh... not so much.



If only I had a blaster.