Get the drift?Four-wheel driveisn’t always a ticket outMy mom blames me for the foot of snow we got last week.I came home from Connell Car Care a couple of weeks ago with a new (10-year-old) vehicle. It's a Chevy Blazer, and I mentioned that I couldn't wait to try out my four-wheel drive."Are you happy now?" were Mom's words through the phone line after the Friday blizzard.I suppose she fancied me in a make-believe truck commercial, wheeling around with all four tires kicking up dramatic snow sprays."No, mom," I replied. "I'm not happy."Not only had I not had the chance to try out my four-wheel drive option, I hadn’t even been out of the garage.The Thursday-Friday blizzard and its northeast winds strategically crafted a drift on my yard so long and so deep, I actually took a snow day from work. That's something that's happened only one other time in my 12 years at the Star Herald.At first I was excited about the snow.I watched Thursday night as a delicate finger drift stretched across the cement by the garage doors.We haven't had much snow this year, so I actually appreciated its beauty and got caught up in the adrenaline of hyper TV meteorologists.Through the night Thursday and into Friday morning, the finger drift evolved and became something that could be described as anything but "delicate."Every time I checked, it looked less "delicate" and more "foreboding." Certainly it was something not to be traveled through, even with a four-wheel drive vehicle. Bummer.As the howling winds sent horizontal snow swirling around the northeast corner of the garage, the finger drift soon resembled a giant Nike swoosh, and the end result Friday morning was a four-foot-high, six-foot-wide, 20-foot-long wall of cement-like snow.And it was still blowing and snowing.Even if I had accepted offers for help digging me out, I still had to get back in at the end of the day, and the wind clearly intended to blow shut any openings we could make in "the wall."So, all four wheels stayed safely parked in the garage Friday and I resigned myself to working at home.The only thing worse than being snowed in, I reasoned, was being snowed out.