So if you hadn't heard, our area had a little case of white out. My trucker friends Chase, Kevin, and Mikey who have less luck than I, and who haven't got a load this way in months, all found themselves dispatched to the "New" Northpole last week, just as the Governor of Washington had to fly into Spokane to announce a "snow emergency" and all the passes closed, and most of the roads leading up to them did too. A whole bunch of roofs caved in-including a firestation. The National Guard was called out. Kids didn't go to school for over a week.

A lot of people slid into one another.

It was very hateful all that white stuff.

On the worst night of all, I met Mikey down in Airway Heights which is about 85 miles from here and we both thought the wind blowing the snow around was something pretty neat to see until that same wind flattened his mirrors against his Peterbilt and put his trailer in the ditch twice and wait there's more...for the grand finale, well he had to be towed 7 miles into Idaho behind a backhoe, because after he'd loaded his load, all the roads were shut down with blowing snow. Some of them still haven't reopened.

Mikey wanted pictures because no one would believe him.

So these are for him. Oh yeah and the pic above is to prove to Kevin's mom that he is still alive and that not all his hair has turned gray.