Blizzard, Day 2

[killina]

Another day and another twelve  hours of driving are over.  Today was much easier.  The highways were clearer.  By afternoon 695 was clear.  95 still sucks though.  There are down trees every where.  They just snap at the base under the weight of the snow.  It looks like a giant reached down and broke them off the earth.  The smaller side streets are still a problem too.  I nearly got stuck several times in the neighborhood of my last drop off tonight.  I love my car.  And I love the little coincidences that make me feel like Goddess is watching.  Like when my phone died.  The GPS in my phone locked up.  When this happens, the only thing I can do is pull out the battery and wait for it to reboot.  I was depending on that GPS at the time so I had no choice but to pull over.  I had not eaten in about eight or nine hours.  I pulled into a gas station and got a sandwich while waiting on my phone.  When I got back to the car, my phone still had not rebooted, so I sat still and ate my sandwich.  My passengers (and myself) were starting to get worried that I had loss my GPS.  No sooner had I finished my sandwich, than my phone rebooted and worked perfectly from then on.  And then when I was driving home tonight, all I really wanted was a clear parking space somewhere in my parking lot so I wouldn't have to park on the main road and walk a quarter mile over frozen snow.  Not only was there a space, but it was the closest posible space to the door of my building.  THANK YOU UNIVERSE!

P.S.  I like to say a big THANK YOU to every single road worker out there with a snow plow or bulldozer working day and night to make our roads passable.  They have preformed tirelessly and with elegant efficiency, before, during and after the storm.  I am truly in awe.  It is because of them that fire trucks and ambulances could get to where ever they needed to go, and people like me could transport those who truly needed to get to work.  "Thank you" just does seem to cover it.