better late than never, i guess
So this morning I woke up to the sound of sleet. It makes a nice soft hissing noise. Until you go out into it, then it's cold. I checked the internet, we still have school. So I get up and shower, and get ready, and go outside and scrape off my car. Which is useless because as I scrape, the ice just remelts to the windshield. So I turn the defrost on as high as it will go and work the wipers and drive slowly, because the roads aren't that great. Even then it's a losing battle with the ice and I consider pulling over to scrape the windshield again. Now I'm late, though, so I keep going. The highway isn't that great, but it's OK, until it backs up because people have spun out. Then I find that the car doesn't particularly want to stop and not slide. Luckily I didn't hit anyone because I slowed down way way back, letting me pump my brakes (stupid cheap car with no ABS). So I got off at Big Bend and I got past the bank with the big sign but not quite to the 7-11 yet, maybe 6 blocks or so. And I thought, you know, I should get my phone out in case someone tries to call or something. And as I was getting the phone out, it's ringing. Julie called and said Brentwood hadn't called her yet but KMOV had it listed as having school cancelled so that was good enough for her. Oh good, I can turn around and go home and go to bed. Brentwood called me about 5 minutes later. That was enough time to get back to the highway and see that in the 5 minutes since I was just there 2 more cars have spun out. AND someone spun out at the Kingshighway offramp, so that was fun to drive by and then sit at the red light at the top of a hill. Now I'm back home and none of our other districts have cancelled school so it's kind of nice to go by Brentwood's snow schedule. I bet the superintendent saw the number of accidents (or got in one himself, it's possible) and decided that even though it was 7am already and all the buses were already on the way no one else should come in. Patrick is off too, he might have gotten all the way to school. We were just talking about how even though he wants to have parent/teacher conferences at least calling off school today means that they don't lose yet another day of musical rehearsal, since they weren't going to have any anyways.