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winter concerns
Dec. 9th, 2005 06:33 pmI went in to work today. Was able to park within my favorite block-of-3-spots, which I have not been able to do more than once int he past two months, since the 4th floor finally got a renter. Of course anyone local ought to realize why I was able to get my spot --- BIG SNOW STORM today.
An Electrical Snow Storm, in fact. I definitely saw lightening twice and heard thunder.
I left early, when the snow was coming down sideways. I wasn't getting hardly anything done at work anyway. The place was so deserted that it was hard to focus. And the three people who were the only other ones present on my half of the floor for most of the morning, they were vocally in "why did I bother coming in" headspace.
So I left around 3, made the mistake of taking Lexington Street (because I was concerned about traction on hilly Wyman Rd), and proceeded to spend a full hour moving no more than 2 blocks. So, I made use of the ample space I was saving between me and the car ahead, did a U-Turn, and doubled back the Wyman-Rd route to RT 2. No traction problems, and the rest of the trip took about half as long as those two impossble blocks. I give myself a pat on the back for having stayed relaxed, all the way through.
Along the way I saw 9 cars that had slid off the road. This is just in the approx 5-mile stretch of Rt 2 that I go on! 3 of them looked recoverable, just stopped on the edge of the roadway, but the rest were whoa way out there. They dotted the snow-covered grass divider like some kind of crazy decoration. I have never seen this many escaped cars.
Came home and shoveled the walk & driveway all by myself. I was even able to let my next door neighbor pull her car into my driveway's second spot, so she had a place to put the car while she & her husband cleared their own drive. I got all of the shovelling done before anyone else in my house arrived home. I was glad to be able to do this work. My upstairs neighbor has taken car of shifting my car around his in the driveway so many times, while I get to stay asleep. Here's a way to reciprocate.
An Electrical Snow Storm, in fact. I definitely saw lightening twice and heard thunder.
I left early, when the snow was coming down sideways. I wasn't getting hardly anything done at work anyway. The place was so deserted that it was hard to focus. And the three people who were the only other ones present on my half of the floor for most of the morning, they were vocally in "why did I bother coming in" headspace.
So I left around 3, made the mistake of taking Lexington Street (because I was concerned about traction on hilly Wyman Rd), and proceeded to spend a full hour moving no more than 2 blocks. So, I made use of the ample space I was saving between me and the car ahead, did a U-Turn, and doubled back the Wyman-Rd route to RT 2. No traction problems, and the rest of the trip took about half as long as those two impossble blocks. I give myself a pat on the back for having stayed relaxed, all the way through.
Along the way I saw 9 cars that had slid off the road. This is just in the approx 5-mile stretch of Rt 2 that I go on! 3 of them looked recoverable, just stopped on the edge of the roadway, but the rest were whoa way out there. They dotted the snow-covered grass divider like some kind of crazy decoration. I have never seen this many escaped cars.
Came home and shoveled the walk & driveway all by myself. I was even able to let my next door neighbor pull her car into my driveway's second spot, so she had a place to put the car while she & her husband cleared their own drive. I got all of the shovelling done before anyone else in my house arrived home. I was glad to be able to do this work. My upstairs neighbor has taken car of shifting my car around his in the driveway so many times, while I get to stay asleep. Here's a way to reciprocate.
