Snow!

[thomryng]

It never ceases to amaze me that we get a couple of inches of snow and this region simply shuts down.

Sure, there's ice and hills and such, but it really shouldn't be taking people four hours to get from Tacoma to SeaTac.

Needless to say, school is canceled. In fact, I doubt there's a school open between here and the Canadian border.

I'm sitting in the parlour in my robe and fuzzy slippers. Coffee's brewing.

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[cyclometh.livejournal.com]

I've lived here for my whole life and only once has it been this bad, in 1996 after an ice storm that knocked out power for two weeks to my office.

I drove a four-wheel drive truck to Tacoma and it took well over an hour because Interstate 5 was literally compact snow and ice from Olympia to Lakewood. I took the train, but the roads were so bad that you literally couldn't accelerate or brake without sliding.

What's amazing is that I made it to the office at all; turns out the campus is closed today, but I didn't find out until I got here.

[thomryng.livejournal.com]

the campus is closed today

D'oh! Whaddaya gonna do now?

[cyclometh.livejournal.com]

Well, they didn't lock the doors or anything. The cafeterias are all closed, but there's people here working. I'm just going to do my thing and leave early so I can make the train.

[thomryng.livejournal.com]

Wow. Good luck with that!

Francine is working from home today.

Of course my current project is on the computer at work and I neglected to bring a copy. Not that I'm hurting for projects to work on, you understand, but I'd rather prefer to get the ones with closer deadlines out of the way first.