I used to like to drive down the old back country roads with my lights off (back then there was zero traffic) Just to admire the beauty of the snow-covered fields.
It is pretty. So long as the idiots and wimps stay off the roads. :)
The blizzard of ‘78 was awesome for us because we were all home and didn’t lose electricity.
Some weren’t as lucky.
Most snow I’ve ever seen and I’ve been around a long time.
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“The year 1918 began with two enterprising gentlemen playing a golf game on the frozen waters of Raritan Bay. By Jan. 6, the intense cold had made the ice so thick that thousands were out on the bay, and at least four automobiles drove around the lighthouse and back to Amboy.”
This is not totally relevant. Actually hardly relevant at all. But you mentioned the beautiful drive through snow-covered fields without your lights on.
There’s a Docotrow novel, I think it was Loon Lake. As I remember it, the hero is driving through the corn fields with his lights off. He views the magnificence of the fields in the moonlight and says to his ‘love’ who is the 19 year old daughter of a Lithuanian undertaker, “look at this. Do you feel it?” She looks at him, puzzled and says “I dunno what’cha talking about.”
Somehow I was stopped in my tracks and couldn’t keep reading for hours after that.