tractor

 Our loader tractor, one of our chore tools, sits stationary today.  When the storm blew up on the 23rd we took it out twice to help stranded motorists.  The tractor made perhaps fifteen miles on the road in the snowfall and driving wind.  When I went to start it yesterday, it showed air restriction and upon exploration I found the primary air filter nearly completely blocked with ice and the final filter looking dirty and brown.  One cab door was frozen tight and the inside of the cab looked like someone had shaken out a vacuum cleaner bag in there.  We hope the tractor got shut down in time after the storm; we must wait until Saturday to get new air filters for it and try it out.  

The snowstorm was a learning experience for some of us, for us older ones, more like deja-vu all over again.  We humans persist in thinking we have it under control until nature shows us we don't.