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The highway sign suddenly lights yellow in the highbeams. Deer Crossing - Night Danger. There are no deer out here. They are at in their forests under snowy pine boughs. There is danger tonight however.

Through the long cold day there have been relentles driving snows. Roads of grey and white. The farm over there is simply standing grey and silver and white. Tonight the highway 60 is a narrow grey path through a cream white corridor of snow banks. Approaching in the other lane are blinking blue lights above a slow truck clearing snow with its broad blade. Ahead is a pickup truck plowing in a long driveway. There arethe wide tracks and a tractor is pushing the deep snow to the road where we drivers wait at the long light. Pull away slow and steady: there's a semi truck behind and cautious small sedan ahead. Just a grey curved mass it is in the blowing snow. When I drop back the truck drops back. And so we follow in a solemn parade from Highway 17 to Haley Station where the snow is deep still. Over the train tracks and down the hill to the intersection at the road and fields and the turn to Alderburn Farm. The headlights shine on the big red barn and the driveway where I am safe and sound. No harm done on a slippery white and striped grey highway night.