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Snow Day
They are predicting a snow day for us on Wed. But I don't actually get the day off, since I can telecommute.
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All weekend it was like the end of the world was coming. Local news freaks out and does these super-exaggerated, sensationalist news stories about how if you even walk out to your car, black ice will kill you. They literally have these graphics they roll out for weather events like this- ICESTORM DEATHWATCH '11. People freak the fuck out. Stores literally run completely out of milk, bread, eggs, and the cheapest, shittiest beer they sell. But I went to Whole Foods and it was totally normal, like any sunday doing the shopping. I went to the more plebian Kroger and I kid you know there was an atmosphere of panic. I saw this guy RUN to get the last carton of eggs. What. The. Fuck. I had to wait in line for almost 45 minutes.
The thing is, even in a big snow event (meaning more than one inch here), it goes away like the next day. I can think of literally maybe three times where we've been snowed in for more than a day. People act like they're going to be stranded and unable to make egg sandwiches and milk/beer cocktails.
It is a pretty decent one this time, about six inches of really powdery snow at our place with about an inch-thick crust of ice on top.
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Barnes, you're right about the supermarkets. People completely flip out over the weather down here. Hell, even the hint of rain causes everyone to drive like an asshole. Snow, empties the stores of all perishables. I had to shop on Sunday as that is my normal grocery day and I had nothing in the house. When I got there; milk, bread and eggs were almost gone like I expected and so were all the onions/potatoes/bananas in the store!!
Since my department doesn't let us work from home, I had no choice but to relax and do nothing work related. I got some studying in for an exam I am doing for work (Actuarial exams), read a little (Hunger Games currently) and played some Xbox (RB3 and Red Dead Redemption).
I'm hoping for another snow day tomorrow! I missed them, even though I barely got any when I lived in Michigan. Two feet of snow, no big deal, schools still open.
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People act like they're going to be stranded and unable to make egg sandwiches and milk/beer cocktails.
Oh people do that here too, bunch of fucking crazies.
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Otherwise I think I'll start painting some of my gaming plastic.
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They are saying that the snow won't melt until Saturday. It is going to get a bit above freezing this afternoon, but we are also getting a little more precipitation this eve.
It may end up being a snow week.
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But in practice, we don't get snow powder. We get a mix of sleet, freezing rain and snow. The 6" snow on the ground has an inch thick cap of ice on top where the later sleet melted and fused it together. The tracks of cars driving yesterday just compressed the snow so it refroze overnight. Conditions are actually WORSE today than Monday.
I was in a small town north of Boston for a blizzard once. The area got hit with something like 12 inches in 4 hours. As soon as the now stopped, there were massive fleets of snowplows with trailing salt trucks, and the streets were pristine and perfectly driveable practically within the hour.
They closed half of I285 (ring road around Atlanta) claiming 1 inch thick sheets of ice.
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We hardly have that much snow yet up here in my part of Canada, we got maybe 4-5 inches of fluffy stuff over the weekend. It's not that cold either, the coldest yet was maybe -20 Celsius. Easy winter so far, but we still have a good 2 months to go.
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Just enough to screw my commute home tonight, but not enough to get out early or even get a delay tomorrow.
Just dont snow at all if that's how it's gonna be, I say!
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I've got enough homebrew and pizza fixings to last me until spring.The big question is do you all have enough shitty beer and eggs in the house to last out the week?
And probably enough unpainted FFG plastic to last that long as well.
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