Snow storm
We had a HUGE snow storm today. It went from midnight last night to 3 pm today. We got 14 inches of snow (snow falling 2 inches an hour at times), thunder snow! (which is very rare...I've only experienced it once when I was in NE), high winds, etc. Very harsh weather even for people from WI.
Pretty much everything was closed...except my work. My boss said I could study and call into my confrence call from home in the morning. Then, when it was lighter snow around noon I went to work, thinking everyone would pick on me for coming in late b/c I'm the person from NC whose afraid to drive in snow, but that didn't happen b/c no one was there. The building I work in usually has about 120 ppl, I counted 15 cars. And since the parking spaces weren't plowed, I had to take out my snow shovel out of my trunk (which I am so glad I got!) and shovel myself out a space...about 10 inches of snow btw. But as Kelly says, at least I got a work out. :)
Oh well, at least I didn't have to use up any of my PTO (paid time off) this way, and I made it there and home safely. The drive home was a lot easier than the drive there.
Anyway, I did learn something on the drive to work today: if you are ever driving uphill when it's icey, DO NOT STOP! I had to slide back down the hill to get going again. haha. It was an experience I guess. And the fact that the only other people on the road were snow plows and salt trucks did make my drive a bit easier. The only really hard part (besides getting up that dang hill from my underground parking) were the exits on and off the interstate. I think the snow plows forgot about those b/c they weren't plowed at all.
Oh yea, and I also hate the guy who was using a snow blower on his side walk, throwing the snow onto the street!!! grrr...I wish I was a cop so I could have given him a ticket. I could have gotten in a wreck b/c of him just b/c he was too damn lazy to face his snow blower the other way to shoot the snow onto his lawn like you are legally supposed to do.
My posts are starting to get negative, but really it's just b/c I come on here to rant sometimes. Now, Paul and I are going to go to the grocery store to get some stuff to make a gingerbread house! :D
Pretty much everything was closed...except my work. My boss said I could study and call into my confrence call from home in the morning. Then, when it was lighter snow around noon I went to work, thinking everyone would pick on me for coming in late b/c I'm the person from NC whose afraid to drive in snow, but that didn't happen b/c no one was there. The building I work in usually has about 120 ppl, I counted 15 cars. And since the parking spaces weren't plowed, I had to take out my snow shovel out of my trunk (which I am so glad I got!) and shovel myself out a space...about 10 inches of snow btw. But as Kelly says, at least I got a work out. :)
Oh well, at least I didn't have to use up any of my PTO (paid time off) this way, and I made it there and home safely. The drive home was a lot easier than the drive there.
Anyway, I did learn something on the drive to work today: if you are ever driving uphill when it's icey, DO NOT STOP! I had to slide back down the hill to get going again. haha. It was an experience I guess. And the fact that the only other people on the road were snow plows and salt trucks did make my drive a bit easier. The only really hard part (besides getting up that dang hill from my underground parking) were the exits on and off the interstate. I think the snow plows forgot about those b/c they weren't plowed at all.
Oh yea, and I also hate the guy who was using a snow blower on his side walk, throwing the snow onto the street!!! grrr...I wish I was a cop so I could have given him a ticket. I could have gotten in a wreck b/c of him just b/c he was too damn lazy to face his snow blower the other way to shoot the snow onto his lawn like you are legally supposed to do.
My posts are starting to get negative, but really it's just b/c I come on here to rant sometimes. Now, Paul and I are going to go to the grocery store to get some stuff to make a gingerbread house! :D