I have to work today. That would normally be fine, but we’ve been hit with a brutal snowstorm. They were saying to expect 30cm of snow but I think that’s been exceeded. The snow is falling horizontally with stinging winds. There are not enough plows to go around, and the city sidewalks haven’t even been touched yet. I slogged through knee-high snow this morning to get to work, my normally 20 minute walk became about 45 mins. Cars are few and are going pretty slowly.
But for some reason we’re still open. I work at a University. Classes have been out since last week. There is literally no one here but staff and some faculty. All the work that needs to be done before January is already done. Tomorrow is the official beginning of our holidays. We’re pretty much just twiddling our thumbs here, but the head honchos here refuse to close the place down. And I can’t figure out why the hell not.
Yeah, it snowed last night here but it’s wackily turned to rain/freezing rain. Think I’ll take the bus to work and let the bus driver have the white knuckles.
And I know I’m only going to get 1-2 hours of work in. I’d really rather stay home but I know my first appointment won’t cancel and I’m a little to broke to cancel them. Fek.
We’re having a ‘chinook’ here at the moment. Temps have climbed into the 40s (Fahrenheit, or true degrees), with 100mph winds at the higher elevations. Everything is turned to slush and muck. The bad news is that it’s supposed to drop down to 0 by tomorrow, freezing it all into place. Yay!
Man, that’s a bummer. I"m imagining a nice cozy crackling fireplace and hot cocoa for you. AFTER of course, you’ve had a lovely hot bubble bath, and are wrapped in the most perfect flannel pjs ever.
I hope the rest Christmas goes much, much better for you.
Over a foot fell with here with ice, but since this is Cincinnati where everyone freaks over snow, we are on a level 3 emergency which means I am stuck in the house. ><
Well, at least you didn’t have to be outside with 2000 people when our building’s fire alarm went off! Damn thing shorted out (no fire) so we all had to leave for 20 minutes. We all took shelter (against the rules) in our underground parking area.
What area got hit with 30 cm? Mississauga took in about ~10 cm. I had no serious trouble making it to work with my winter tires (can’t say the same for about 95% of the dipshits out there).
Going home is going to be a treat. Freezing rain + evening rush + last minute shoppers = fun.
We got an assload of the white stuff here in SE Ohio (or at least more than we’ve seen in awhile). Luckily I didn’t have to work today and we closed early last night before the worst of it hit. Still, I was supposed to get some stitches removed (minor, outpatient-type surgery) so that sucks.
Good thing I’ve got stacks of (literally!) of movies to watch and books to read…
I was working Tuesday evening believing that nobody would come in for tutoring because most members are out of town/out of the country. An hour before we are supposed to close the place gets swamped :smack:
The Nothern hemisphere is having a fine old wintery xmas, just like they expected and wanted.
The Pacific islands and Australia are having the fine summery xmas they wanted and expected.
Here in NZ… summer arrived in November. What a fine 2 weeks it was! Then winter came back. It is rainy and yucky. Too cold and wet for the beach. Too “sposed-to-summer” for inside xmas.
Meanwhile, in Dallas temperatures dropped to freezing causing… SNOW
…to fall from the sky. At least we think so. It melted pretty quick, so it’s hard to be sure. Still, they nearly evacuated the city, but realized it’d mean driving on slick roads.
So, picture this, if you will, the week’s high temperatures.
Monday - 71
Tuesday - 67
Wednesday - 46
Thursday - 32
They expect we’ll be back in the 70s by the weekend.
So not to put to fine a point on it, we envy your snow. Yes, even the big messy blizzards. Because to us, everything is a big messy blizzard.
InkBlot
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What I hate is I spent my learning-to-drive years in Rochester NY…and benefitted from the Great Lakes Weather Systems…
Chapped my ass, I lived 50 miles one way from a previous job, and made it in every blasted day of the winter, and the dweebs that lived local to the job never managed to make it in because of the snow. I finally snapped during a snow storm and told the shift manager that I was going home and calling in snowbound and if they penalized me they could shove the job because they never penalized the people who lived less than 5 miles away when they didnt come in because of the snow.
I even got paid as a comp day and an apology … seems that the relatively new shift manager never realized I lived 50 miles away and managed to make it in all those days. They also started penalizing people for being snowbound if the police didn’t close down the roads for weather and they lived less than 10 miles away. I would get a call a couple hours before shift time and told not to come in =)
My day’s almost done with. It looks like the worst is over (for now). The main parking lot was a complete mess. The plows didn’t even go through it - There were at least 5 people spinning their tires trying to get out the last time I looked out the window. Kind of makes me glad I had to walk.
Thanks for the sympathy Especially the nice images CanvasShoes conjured up. I am totally going to do all that stuff tonight!
Especially the nice images CanvasShoes conjured up. I am totally going to do all that stuff tonight!