Three days after our huge snowfall, many roads still aren’t clear. Driving in to Oakland from the east suburbs Monday morning was no easy task. Traffic was very heavy, people were getting stuck all over, and there were heavy delays everywhere.
Traffic was completely backed up on Forbes Avenue going through Frick Park. After sitting still in traffic for about 20 minutes, several SUVs started to cross the center line, which was covered in snow, and then drive around all the traffic on the wrong side of the road.
My Forester probably could have done this, but I didn’t feel in such a hurry to drive into oncoming traffic. I watched as a number of SUVs and then a Mazda 3 drove through the mounds of snow. Then, looking in my sideview mirror, I saw this:
I took the above photo with my phone, so quality is not good. Here’s a crop of the same photo for a closer view. 
Yep, that’s a Mini Cooper, trying – and so far, failing – to get through the drift of snow in the middle of the road. You have to give that little car some credit for giving it a try. Or, you could think that it was a little silly to think it could get through snow almost as high as its windshield.
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