So iced in it's not even funny
Last night's storm actually managed to be worse than the blizzard last week. I slept through a lot of it due to a really bad migraine, but from what I saw on Twitter, it was bad.
It hit a couple of hours before rush hour, so it took a lot of people hours to get home because they were trying to drive through the worst of it. The ploughs got stuck in traffic. Buses got stuck on hills. Nightmare.
And the storm ended with a lot of ice pellets and freezing rain sometime in the middle of the night, just to make sure that digging out today is impossible. A lot of the city is still shut down. The roads are largely impassable. Some of the highways are starting to get driveable (it's late morning), but most of the side streets are under three inches of ice and impossible to navigate. The city plough has been past on my street, but nobody has gone anywhere. We've got thick walls of ice churned up by the plough blocking us in our driveways, and even the people who have managed to chip those down aren't going anywhere because the street is so bad and we'd have to slide down a hill to go anywhere.
A hill with an ocean at the bottom.
And nobody wants to get trapped away from home if they can't get back up the hill.
It's a moot point for me, because both of my screen doors have snow and ice piled against them so I can't get out of the house. I'm still waiting for my plough guy to get up here and chop me free, although I'm starting to feel doubtful about when that will happen. Even his truck may struggle with all that ice on the road.
Good thing I've got plenty of food in the house. I may be here for a day or two.
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It hit a couple of hours before rush hour, so it took a lot of people hours to get home because they were trying to drive through the worst of it. The ploughs got stuck in traffic. Buses got stuck on hills. Nightmare.
And the storm ended with a lot of ice pellets and freezing rain sometime in the middle of the night, just to make sure that digging out today is impossible. A lot of the city is still shut down. The roads are largely impassable. Some of the highways are starting to get driveable (it's late morning), but most of the side streets are under three inches of ice and impossible to navigate. The city plough has been past on my street, but nobody has gone anywhere. We've got thick walls of ice churned up by the plough blocking us in our driveways, and even the people who have managed to chip those down aren't going anywhere because the street is so bad and we'd have to slide down a hill to go anywhere.
A hill with an ocean at the bottom.
And nobody wants to get trapped away from home if they can't get back up the hill.
It's a moot point for me, because both of my screen doors have snow and ice piled against them so I can't get out of the house. I'm still waiting for my plough guy to get up here and chop me free, although I'm starting to feel doubtful about when that will happen. Even his truck may struggle with all that ice on the road.
Good thing I've got plenty of food in the house. I may be here for a day or two.
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