Knox 250 in Springfield
Jan. 17th, 2026 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
palusbuteoWoke up this morning feeling like ass. But I think it's just my usual morning groggy that's now gone.
Muses_realm says she's feeling a little sick. So has no interested to venture out to Springfield for the Knox 250th event.
I had been planning on it for weeks. But, I hear from my college friend Aaron in W. Springfield it's pretty bad out there, they got 3-4 inches and now it's slush. More snow expected around noon until the early evening. 1-3 inches.
I just don't feel like doing it.
The roads in Woo look fine. I'm seeing pavement emerge out of the snow coating.
But, I also know it's going to snow again later.
I also know this is WHY I have an Outback. But I'm also almost 50 and with the bad back, although I think I'm now back to about 98% good. I have probably some false-confidence with the 2019 Outback being able to laugh at snow and slush, I don't think I've ever really had much sliding or anything it couldn't handle.
But I do remember when the 2007 crashed & died in similar snowy-icy conditions around this time of year, back like 10 years ago. (and I still think the brakes were compromised after the multi-car pileup it was in a week before that) The 2009 seemed to do better but had its sketchy moments, although that may have been more because the tires were worn out in its last 2 years. And it was never the same once the head gasket got replaced twice and the sparks blew and wrecked the cat converter in its last year with me.
And, I'm also not obligated to be outside in Springfield for this commemoration. I'm not being paid to be there. So if I don't HAVE TO be driving in meh weather, and I don't HAVE TO be at the event.....Do I HAVE TO still go?
The event is coming to Worcester on the 31st and it's at the Antiquarian Soc. So, I WILL make a concerted effort to be there. It's only 10 mins down the road instead of an hour... Unless it snows like a foot....Which is certainly possible this time of year.
Muses_realm says she's feeling a little sick. So has no interested to venture out to Springfield for the Knox 250th event.
I had been planning on it for weeks. But, I hear from my college friend Aaron in W. Springfield it's pretty bad out there, they got 3-4 inches and now it's slush. More snow expected around noon until the early evening. 1-3 inches.
I just don't feel like doing it.
The roads in Woo look fine. I'm seeing pavement emerge out of the snow coating.
But, I also know it's going to snow again later.
I also know this is WHY I have an Outback. But I'm also almost 50 and with the bad back, although I think I'm now back to about 98% good. I have probably some false-confidence with the 2019 Outback being able to laugh at snow and slush, I don't think I've ever really had much sliding or anything it couldn't handle.
But I do remember when the 2007 crashed & died in similar snowy-icy conditions around this time of year, back like 10 years ago. (and I still think the brakes were compromised after the multi-car pileup it was in a week before that) The 2009 seemed to do better but had its sketchy moments, although that may have been more because the tires were worn out in its last 2 years. And it was never the same once the head gasket got replaced twice and the sparks blew and wrecked the cat converter in its last year with me.
And, I'm also not obligated to be outside in Springfield for this commemoration. I'm not being paid to be there. So if I don't HAVE TO be driving in meh weather, and I don't HAVE TO be at the event.....Do I HAVE TO still go?
The event is coming to Worcester on the 31st and it's at the Antiquarian Soc. So, I WILL make a concerted effort to be there. It's only 10 mins down the road instead of an hour... Unless it snows like a foot....Which is certainly possible this time of year.
