"The Storm Is Coming"
Dec. 19th, 2008 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I managed to shop for Juli today. I haven't ever "Last Minute Shopped" before. It's both frustrating and simplifying. I think I've got her some good stuff.
I also managed to scrape our driveway so I could get out to work tomorrow morning.
We're due for 4 to 8 inches of snow starting tomorrow night that may be followed up by a crust of freezing rain. It's beginning to look like Juli and I wont make the party, but will keep the possibility open. If there is a big storm we would rather be trapped at home.
I left for work yesterday a 1/2 hour early. My direct route turned out to be closed. I had to choose between the second direct route through hilly rural roads or the third indirect route the back tracks North through Port Orchard. I took the third route as it was well lit and a little better prepared by road crews.
Work has been Very slow. Few calls, but long and complicated. Then the snow hit and it was like the phones were turned off. Work sent me home one hour early yesterday. I got some shopping done in Gig Harbor and then worked my way West [more North realy] on 16. 16 was in the news last night for being very slow. Yes. 2 miles an hour. I checked. I managed to get home a half hour later then I would have on a normal day, let go at the normal time.
The Weather Outside Is Delightful. Traveling In It Is Rather Frightful.
I managed to shop for Juli today. I haven't ever "Last Minute Shopped" before. It's both frustrating and simplifying. I think I've got her some good stuff.
I also managed to scrape our driveway so I could get out to work tomorrow morning.
We're due for 4 to 8 inches of snow starting tomorrow night that may be followed up by a crust of freezing rain. It's beginning to look like Juli and I wont make the party, but will keep the possibility open. If there is a big storm we would rather be trapped at home.
I left for work yesterday a 1/2 hour early. My direct route turned out to be closed. I had to choose between the second direct route through hilly rural roads or the third indirect route the back tracks North through Port Orchard. I took the third route as it was well lit and a little better prepared by road crews.
Work has been Very slow. Few calls, but long and complicated. Then the snow hit and it was like the phones were turned off. Work sent me home one hour early yesterday. I got some shopping done in Gig Harbor and then worked my way West [more North realy] on 16. 16 was in the news last night for being very slow. Yes. 2 miles an hour. I checked. I managed to get home a half hour later then I would have on a normal day, let go at the normal time.
The Weather Outside Is Delightful. Traveling In It Is Rather Frightful.
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Date: 2008-12-20 02:46 am (UTC)The bad part is we are trapped. The Matrix has four-wheel drive, but it has such low ground clearance that it is helpless. The driveway is over 200 feet long. 200-plus feet long by 14 feet wide by 17 inches deep is a helluva lot of snow volume. It certainly doesn't help that the snow plows have built a nice wall at the street end.