Lindsay's No Good Very Bad Day

Today hasn't gone as planned. Not that I had much planned but, still, I didn't plan for all of this.
I woke up very early this morning in anticipation that the roads may still be snow covered. What I discovered was that just my road was snow covered. And not just snow covered but drift covered. Luckily Art was still home (having been the first to discover the drift covered road) and was trying to get the tractor started. He had left his jeep up at the point of no return and came back for the tractor. It was 6:15 in the morning and it was -29 degrees with a stiff breeze. Come to find out, batteries don't work well in that cold of temperature so I had to drive Art back up to his car, get his battery and bring him home so he could switch it out for the one on the tractor. Once he got the tractor up and running he drove up, cleared a path and came home. I then drove him back up to his jeep (battery in tow) and the jeep started right up, and then proceeded to die quite suddenly. Another reason to hate the cold: diesel tends to gel up in extreme cold, no matter how much additive you put in it. So as we are sitting in my car wondering what to do, one of our less-than-friendly nieghbors drives by in his very large, dual wheeled pick up truck. He stops and asks us "Is the road clear?" when I tell him 'yes, we cleared it' he nods his head and drives off. Did he think of asking, "Why are you sitting in your car in -29 degree weather behind another car with no driver?" We drove home, picked up our other jeep, and drove back to the car with the hopes that we can tow it home. This did not go as planned. The snow that was light and fluffy last night, had now turned rock hard and had somehow adhered itself to the jeep making it immovable. Finally we call our neighbor (who, I might add, has a snow plow blade on the front of his truck and, I might add again, it's in front of his barns that this scene is unfolding) he is able to tow Art home and finally, finally we can leave for work. During the frequent back and forth between jeep and home I had to drive through another (not as deep) snow drifted area (well, not so much 'drive' as 'barrel') Did you know that constantly barreling through snow can cause your power steering belt to come off? I didn't either. But it did and now I'm driving around with no power steering. On the upside it's an excellent work out for my arms.
All this before 10:00am.
It's days like this that I wonder why the hell I moved back. Did you know that we haven't had temperatures this cold since 1972? And that yesterday, Santa Anna, Calif. had record temperatures of 87 degrees? If this isn't global warming than it is certainly the apocolypse.