So, about The Day After Tomorrow...
I think my city is now shell-shocked by the weather. Sunday featured snow, which transitioned to rain and caused mass flooding on a lot of roads (two feet deep in a lot of places) due to volume of rain and snow melt.
And then, in the middle of the afternoon, the temps dropped by ten degrees in an hour and we had a flash freeze, with all that water still on the ground.
The phrase "entombed in ice" has now been used to describe a city in real life. It's like something out of The Day After Tomorrow here.
Two days later, and most of the roads are still dangerous to drive on. I've throw my back out, because I spend two hours on Sunday, moving slushy wet snow before it could freeze. Cleared my entire driveway and looked like an icicle when I got in, because the freeze was starting as I finished. Moving that much heavy wet snow killed my back.
At least it gave me an excuse to work from home today. Hopefully we'll see some improvement in the roads - it's supposed to be -6C and very sunny today, so the salt should have a chance of doing something, anyway.
And then we get another storm on Thursday.
I'm sorry, this blog has become a constant thread of "MOAR SNOW OMG". But really, venting is the only thing keeping me marginally sane right now. At least I've got a lot of food in and don't need to leave the house for a while.
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And then, in the middle of the afternoon, the temps dropped by ten degrees in an hour and we had a flash freeze, with all that water still on the ground.
The phrase "entombed in ice" has now been used to describe a city in real life. It's like something out of The Day After Tomorrow here.
Two days later, and most of the roads are still dangerous to drive on. I've throw my back out, because I spend two hours on Sunday, moving slushy wet snow before it could freeze. Cleared my entire driveway and looked like an icicle when I got in, because the freeze was starting as I finished. Moving that much heavy wet snow killed my back.
At least it gave me an excuse to work from home today. Hopefully we'll see some improvement in the roads - it's supposed to be -6C and very sunny today, so the salt should have a chance of doing something, anyway.
And then we get another storm on Thursday.
I'm sorry, this blog has become a constant thread of "MOAR SNOW OMG". But really, venting is the only thing keeping me marginally sane right now. At least I've got a lot of food in and don't need to leave the house for a while.
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