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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Forsaken One" data-source="post: 523365" data-attributes="member: 799">Evening of Arrival--Day 0[The phone still gives the same static and crackle.]You all cram yourselves in the Hum-Vee again and head for the Clearwater Hotel. Guided by the bright beacon of ligh in the east and the 4x4 drive of the jeep you plow yourself through the white hell towards what you hope will be a warm bed for the night.As you park your car outside of the hotel you all step out is the jeep and glance up at the building for a moment and then head for the entrance and the foyer.The Clearwater Hotel is ablaze with light, shining like an ornate beacon through the blowing snow as you walk towards it. Inside, the skeleton overnight staff is courteous and understanding in the extreme, even going so far as to offer you an "emergency weather discount". You are assigned rooms 211, a double room on the second floor with room for four. And room 210, a two person room, since you need a second room. The two rooms are adjoining. Room 211 is a typical hotel room: two full-sized beds, a small bathroom, a writing desk, a sleeping couch, and a long dresser with a television on top of it. In the back of the room is a heavy velvet curtain presumably covering a window behind it.While you are being guided upstairs to your rooms by the piccolo he seems quite talkative.It's the county plows. We're right on the county line, and they work their way out from the middle, so the road out of here is the last to get plowed. It seems we'll have to may do what we've got for a couple of days since Miner's Folly has been completely snowed in and I suspect the pass won't be cleared for four days as usual. It's really make do at the moment since even the phone lines are down. The young lad sets some of your suitcases down and heads downstairs to bring the rest up.Ow btw, don't leave the hotel. It's not safe at night in these blizzards but I guess you figured that our for yourselves already. If you want to take a look around the hotel, that's fine. You might want to go and have a drink at the Vally View restaurant below. It's open all night since we were expecting some stranded travellers that got caught by the storm before they cleared the pass. The Valley View offers a 25% discount on food and drinks to make up for your being cooped up in here and the lack of entertainment. And he disappears down the stairs.</blockquote>

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