A trip to Shana’s house: The monstrous ditch!

Now we get stuck in a ditch after a Nor’Easter? This is getting out of hand!

Backstory

On October 21st, we had a minor inconvenience, we were not going to be doing a walk today. Possibly a blog post about that, but we had something more wild happen. Apparently, my dad said that we would be going to Shana’s house today to help her out with building a chicken coop. That would be awesome, So I said a big “yes”!

And while dad was driving, he asked me about what I was reading last night. Oh boy howdy did I start blabbering!

Now, what happened?

While we were pulling into the driveway, we drove into a ditch!

You may think we were not paying attention, but that wasn’t the case! From his viewpoint, it looked like there wasn’t a ditch there at all! It looked like a perfect spot to park! Until we put the wheel into the ditch…

And oh boy did we lift a wheel into the air! It literally went 4 inches off the ground! That was crazy! Plus the subframe made contact with the ground too!

But we had serious luck when Shana had some wood to put under the front wheel! So we had her help out, and to our luck, dad was able to gently push the gas pedal and get the wheel to full contact with the ground! We recovered the vehicle without damage!

What I learned from this crazy, monstrous ditch was that falling into a ditch is very critical and can damage a car’s oilpan, and alignment. Good thing this wasn’t too bad!

The Fall Fest

After helping to build the coop with Shana, we decided to drive home.

Dad saw that the car did not care about driving into the ditch! That means we didn’t even get an alignment problem! Nor loss of oil pressure! It’s crazy just to think a 250,000 mile vehicle can handle that with essentially no scratches!

At 4:30PM the same day, we went to the Fall Fest at Henderson Perry Memorial Library!

And since we helped out Shana, my great friend Theo was able to come over to the Library! There were games, a Trunk&Treat, and even an Arts & Crafts! This event was very awesome and I even was able to make a picture in the Arts&Crafts! Theo was also able to help out with my picture too!