Production Update #55: A Mad Dash through Snowpocalypse 2010...
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 9:03PM Novia and I left yesterday at noon to deliver the broken Steenbeck 1600 edit table to the repairman in Massachusetts. He said this Friday was the only day he’d be available to receive it at his workshop. So we loaded up this startlingly heavy piece of German engineering, and set out to shatter every land speed record imaginable to get it there, all the while using my iPhone to track the approach of this hellaciuos snowstorm on Weather.com. The drive took us a little more than eight hours…
The race against time continued this morning as we set off on the return trip: No snow in Connecticut or New York. But by the time we reached Wilkes-Barre, PA, we started seeing monster-sized snow plows full of salt every 5 miles along Interstate-81, hulking masses with cutting headlights just waiting for the storm... By Pine Grove, the flakes were coming down pretty hard... By Harrisburg, the accidents started... By York, I-83 was all but abandoned -- just two rapidly vanishing tire tracks leading off into the dark... By Glen Rock, cars were speeding up unplowed hills, then skidding down sideways... By 7:30pm, we were home... I'd like to thank the cosmos and Volkswagen engineering...
At times, it was genuinely frightening…
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