Fuck every last one of you stupid shits that don’t know how to handle winter driving!!! Every last interstate and side road in Nashville is at a standstill because YOU have to get home faster than everyone else and you wind up smashing into the drivers trying to be safe. Right now, there are no more policemen available to work wrecks, no more tow trucks to haul your asses out, ambulances can’t get to emergencies. All of this is true, by the way, not just my making wildass assumptions, at least being reported on the radio.
I decided to go home. Well, the office closed so it was decided for me. And I can’t even get out on the road because no one can move. So here I am back in the office ranting! Fuck, people, I don’t see Minnesota falling apart when it snows. They’ve done just fine. It is humanly possible to get from point a to point be when it snows! Do it for fuck sake!!!
Someone owes me a hotel room and room service, cause I’m gonna be stuck here for a while.
And it’s on it’s way here to Charlotte! Hooray! I know I’ll be staying inside for a day or two. The panic that snow brings here is incredible to me (a former Upstate NY Yank). Man alive, people just drive like maniacs- you couldn’t pay me to get on the Interstate tomorrow morning when it hits.
Oh, and here I was all smart and stocked up on groceries well in advance. Yep, got lots of movies I haven’t watched, food to eat, even got my dog some food last night. I just can’t get to any of it.
Traffic has been stopped on the interstate for 4 hrs according to the radio. Someone shoot me.
Yeah, roads were hellacious in Ohio too. I just got a ride home with an inexperienced 16-year-old friend of mine, so my “pucker” factor was rather high.
Have you noticed that it’s usually the guy in the biggest fucking SUV on the market, that ends up in a ditch?
Notice to SUV drivers: 4 wheel drive does not make you God. You still have to slow the fuck down, no matter how big your truck is. Ice is slippery even if your vehicle does weigh eleventy million pounds. And driving your huge ass truck up my ass in a blizzard will not make me go faster, if your truck is so bad-ass drive in the non-plowed lane.
Same phenomenon here. However, there are at least a few like-minded Yankees (us included) or even Canadians residing here that can drive in snow; at least that helps a bit against the onslaught of inexperienced drivers.
I’m just laughing at the reports of all the 2 wheel drive SUV’s getting caught, while my Max’s little Saturn is making it through. Glad I’m stuck at home with a bad back.
Yeah, we have Snowbird on channel 4. Snow is still falling here, not as heavy, but it’s still at about an inch per hour. Looks like we’ll get about 6.5 inches.
What pisses me off is that I work in a call center here in Nashville and every last customer service representative just went home. Pussies! Just because it’s snowing doesn’t mean we don’t have customers to help! You’re a lot safer here at your desk than you are on I-40 right now!
So it’s me and the other supervisor doing the work of 13 people today.
The funny thing is, one of our analysts left here at 9:30 this morning and she just called in - she’s not home yet. Should’ve stayed at work, maybe, where we’ll all nice and warm and dry and fed? Then, by the time your shift was over, most of the traffic would have cleared. Fool.
You people act like you’ve never seen snow before. Pisses me off. Get back to work.
Well, over here in Knoxville, UT didn’t shut down…their reasoning is that we’re primarily a residential campus (for undergrads anyway), but professors do have the option to cancel classes.
I had both of my classes today (potential rant about one in the making…I’m just not sure that I’m worked up enough about it to rant) and made it home fine. Sure, it took me 45 minutes to go 5 miles and the last 2 blocks were the only ones I felt were at all worrisome (up a steep hill), but everyone else was slowing down so I did too. And I would have anyway, even if they hadn’t.
Now I think I need some lunch…popcorn is sounding delightfully tasty and ever so healthy.
