But you have a Subaru

Last night we came home from work, and as we drove down our street, we were kind of surprised. We'd left in the morning on a fairly compacted street. When we came home 11 hours later, we were driving in 6 inches of ruts. We almost wondered if it had snowed again.

We got in front of our house, trying to turn right into our driveway, and couldn't get out of the ruts. We turned slightly right, and slid a little, and then we were stuck, kind of perpendicular in the roadway, within 12 feet of our driveway. We tried moving the tires left and right, hoping to move on out of the rut and get turned. We tried rocking it, we tried pushing. Nothing but spinning tires. Front driver tire was spinning, rear passenger tire was spinning. So we pulled out the shovels and for the next 20 minutes proceeded to dig around the tires to try to get a pathway and get out of the ice.

(so close to our driveway)

(yes, that is a patch of the actual road)

Finally, with great clearance around the tire, and with a push from the back, we made it out and into the garage.

We found from our neighbors who started out to help us that there were others who had been stuck earlier too. We realized it was the trash and recycling trucks that made their way through the neighborhood that had caused such a trashy road again.