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This weekend featured my absolute favourite weather combo ever: snow followed by freezing rain followed by some more snow. IT WAS AWESOME.
I mean that in the most sarcastic way possible, just for clarity.
After all, who doesn't like looking out on a Monday morning to see a foot high ridge of slush from the city plough that is now frozen harder than a rock at the base of their drive? Unsurprisingly, I worked from home yesterday. My plough guy managed to get my driveway somewhat accessible by mid-morning and chipped the ice off my storm door so I could open it. When I could finally leave the car, I got to enjoy scraping frozen rain off my car so I'd be able to drive it today. Man, winter just gets funner every day.
Today I'm at work. This included a mildly terrifying drive down my ice-rink of a street followed by the even more exciting drive down the hill from my street. My little hill ends in a T-junction onto the shore road. If you think that means there's ocean at the bottom of my little hill?
There is.
Hence me being somewhat excessively careful on days like this because if I lose control going down the hill, I don't end up in someone's yard. I end up in the ocean. Fun times!
The good part about this morning was that my car hadn't frozen onto the driveway. Yes, this has happened. No, it's never fun.
Tonight is going to be even more fun. I have to go *up* the little hill and then try to turn onto my street, which will involve turning an uphill corner that is coated in two inches of solid ice. Ha! That's going to be so much fun!
Once again I repeat my winter mantra: Thank fuck for snow tires.
And my other winter mantra: WHEN WILL THIS HELL BE OVER OMG.
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I mean that in the most sarcastic way possible, just for clarity.
After all, who doesn't like looking out on a Monday morning to see a foot high ridge of slush from the city plough that is now frozen harder than a rock at the base of their drive? Unsurprisingly, I worked from home yesterday. My plough guy managed to get my driveway somewhat accessible by mid-morning and chipped the ice off my storm door so I could open it. When I could finally leave the car, I got to enjoy scraping frozen rain off my car so I'd be able to drive it today. Man, winter just gets funner every day.
Today I'm at work. This included a mildly terrifying drive down my ice-rink of a street followed by the even more exciting drive down the hill from my street. My little hill ends in a T-junction onto the shore road. If you think that means there's ocean at the bottom of my little hill?
There is.
Hence me being somewhat excessively careful on days like this because if I lose control going down the hill, I don't end up in someone's yard. I end up in the ocean. Fun times!
The good part about this morning was that my car hadn't frozen onto the driveway. Yes, this has happened. No, it's never fun.
Tonight is going to be even more fun. I have to go *up* the little hill and then try to turn onto my street, which will involve turning an uphill corner that is coated in two inches of solid ice. Ha! That's going to be so much fun!
Once again I repeat my winter mantra: Thank fuck for snow tires.
And my other winter mantra: WHEN WILL THIS HELL BE OVER OMG.
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babbles on the entry on Dreamwidth