After returning back to the States before Christmas, I was blessed with the opportunity to interview with the Duke Divinity School selection committee (more on that later). The interview ended around 2:00pm on a Friday. My goal was to then drive, with Amanda, to Charlottesville, Virginia in order to see some friends from my days at UVa. Only, things didn't work out quite as I had planned.
Leaving Durham, North Carolina at 2:30pm typically means that you'll arrive in Charlottesville sometime between 5:30 and 6:00pm. On Friday, December 18th, 2009, that was simply not true. For those of you who live on the east coast, you'll remember the massive snowstorm that hit the mid-Atlantic that day, but what you may not remember is that it originated in southwest Virginia . . . the exact part of the state that I'd be driving through to reach Charlottesville.
Around 6:30pm Amanda and I were 20 miles south of our destination, and only 25 miles south of Charlottesville. About that same time, the road we were on closed . . . in both directions. For the next 12 hours Amanda and I drove inch by inch in the snow, turned off the engine twice to take naps, helped push other cars out of snowdrifts, and even braved the blustery night winds to answer nature's call. It was an adventure, to say the least.
At 6:30am we parked our car in a snow drift and walked 200 yards, in snow up to our knees, to our friends' warm and cozy home, finally able to get our night's sleep.
The picture you see above is how we found our car at 3:00pm that day, less than 9 hours after we parked it there (and yes, our car is facing the right direction . . . it's the 18-wheeler that's on the wrong side of the road).
Oh yeah, and the reason it was a purposeful snowstorm: my interview at Duke paid off :-) So now I'll be enrolling at Duke Divinity School in August of this year, and I'll even be getting some scholarship help. Praise the Lord.
:-)
Leaving Durham, North Carolina at 2:30pm typically means that you'll arrive in Charlottesville sometime between 5:30 and 6:00pm. On Friday, December 18th, 2009, that was simply not true. For those of you who live on the east coast, you'll remember the massive snowstorm that hit the mid-Atlantic that day, but what you may not remember is that it originated in southwest Virginia . . . the exact part of the state that I'd be driving through to reach Charlottesville.
Around 6:30pm Amanda and I were 20 miles south of our destination, and only 25 miles south of Charlottesville. About that same time, the road we were on closed . . . in both directions. For the next 12 hours Amanda and I drove inch by inch in the snow, turned off the engine twice to take naps, helped push other cars out of snowdrifts, and even braved the blustery night winds to answer nature's call. It was an adventure, to say the least.
At 6:30am we parked our car in a snow drift and walked 200 yards, in snow up to our knees, to our friends' warm and cozy home, finally able to get our night's sleep.
The picture you see above is how we found our car at 3:00pm that day, less than 9 hours after we parked it there (and yes, our car is facing the right direction . . . it's the 18-wheeler that's on the wrong side of the road).
Oh yeah, and the reason it was a purposeful snowstorm: my interview at Duke paid off :-) So now I'll be enrolling at Duke Divinity School in August of this year, and I'll even be getting some scholarship help. Praise the Lord.
:-)
1 comment:
you forgot to say that you had to wear amanda's white puffy jacket and pink scarf when you were helping people pull their cars out :)
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