School's Out!
Feb. 6th, 2008 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
olivia_suttonHiya--
Get what? My school closed early today -- and I was sent home by my boss. This due to *yet another* blizzard. Let me tell you about my week.
Monday, we had a bit more new snow, just a little tho, then by lunchtime (I went out to lunch with my folks 'cause it was Mom's birthday) it was raining. Very light rain, but still rain. By the time I drove home from work at 11pm, there was heavy, heavy fog. This wasn't just snow fog, that hugs the ground and you drive in and out of as you go up and down hills -- nope, this was the real thing, heavy duty, pea soup fog. I *hate* driving in fog -- you can't see anything, and I always feel very disoriented. I even passed my house and had to turn around and go back.
Tuesday, I don't even remember really, and it was just yesterday, but a lot of snow I guess.
Today -- blizzard conditions. Even the ride IN to work was no fun, with a lot of snow falling, and slippy roads. Luckily, it's a in-service day with no students - which might have played into the "we're closed" I found out about around 5pm. When I walked to my car in the parking lot, my face froze -- and yes, I was wearing a scarf, but it was so cold and windy that my face felt like it was freezing. And that was just getting to the parking lot and my car. Brushed the snow off, called home to say I was leaving, and started home. Only to discover tons of bumper-to-bumper traffic. In snow. In LOTS of snow. I finally said to heck with this and took a detour on secondary roads, avoiding the divided highway I normally take home, just to get out of the traffic. And even with the snow on the roads, I probably made better time. The worst things about the drive was (a) the county hadn't plowed - at all; there was between a couple of inches of snow on the roads in some places, to 4-6 inches of snow and slush ON THE ROADS in others. Even the 4-wheel drive Jeep that I'd borrowed was not having any fun.
Just checked NOAA and my county has: "flood warning (Yeah, I've been expecting that since last week), winter storm warning,
Get what? My school closed early today -- and I was sent home by my boss. This due to *yet another* blizzard. Let me tell you about my week.
Monday, we had a bit more new snow, just a little tho, then by lunchtime (I went out to lunch with my folks 'cause it was Mom's birthday) it was raining. Very light rain, but still rain. By the time I drove home from work at 11pm, there was heavy, heavy fog. This wasn't just snow fog, that hugs the ground and you drive in and out of as you go up and down hills -- nope, this was the real thing, heavy duty, pea soup fog. I *hate* driving in fog -- you can't see anything, and I always feel very disoriented. I even passed my house and had to turn around and go back.
Tuesday, I don't even remember really, and it was just yesterday, but a lot of snow I guess.
Today -- blizzard conditions. Even the ride IN to work was no fun, with a lot of snow falling, and slippy roads. Luckily, it's a in-service day with no students - which might have played into the "we're closed" I found out about around 5pm. When I walked to my car in the parking lot, my face froze -- and yes, I was wearing a scarf, but it was so cold and windy that my face felt like it was freezing. And that was just getting to the parking lot and my car. Brushed the snow off, called home to say I was leaving, and started home. Only to discover tons of bumper-to-bumper traffic. In snow. In LOTS of snow. I finally said to heck with this and took a detour on secondary roads, avoiding the divided highway I normally take home, just to get out of the traffic. And even with the snow on the roads, I probably made better time. The worst things about the drive was (a) the county hadn't plowed - at all; there was between a couple of inches of snow on the roads in some places, to 4-6 inches of snow and slush ON THE ROADS in others. Even the 4-wheel drive Jeep that I'd borrowed was not having any fun.
Just checked NOAA and my county has: "flood warning (Yeah, I've been expecting that since last week), winter storm warning,
Short Term Forecast
Kent County (Michigan)
SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
725 PM EST WED FEB 6 2008
MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-070230-
MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON-
MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON-
INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LUDINGTON...BALDWIN...REED CITY...CLARE...
HART...FREMONT...BIG RAPIDS...MOUNT PLEASANT...MUSKEGON...
GREENVILLE...ALMA...JENISON...GRAND RAPIDS...IONIA...ST. JOHNS...
HOLLAND...HASTINGS...CHARLOTTE...LANSING...SOUTH HAVEN...KALAMAZOO...
BATTLE CREEK...JACKSON
725 PM EST WED FEB 6 2008
.NOW...
MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF
THIS EVENING. SNOWFALL AT TIMES WILL BE AROUND AN INCH PER HOUR
NORTH OF THE I 94 CORRIDOR. ROADWAYS WILL REMAIN SLIPPERY AND SNOW
COVERED." unquote
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