Snow Day!

[sinanju]

Once again I am at home while my lovely and talented wife is at work. Snow day! The city school district is closed due to snow, so my office--which follows their lead--is also closed. My wife's office has closed like once in the many years she's been working there. I attempted to drive my wife to work, but we got a couple of blocks and saw that Hawthorne was seriously backed up so she decided instead to take a bus and I drove back to the house. I have the tv on and the local station is doing non-stop coverage of the traffic nightmare.*

Highway I-5 is a parking lot in the northbound lanes due to stalled tractor-trailers and the like blocking uphill sections of the highway. The news helicopters have been relaying video of surface streets where cars are slipping and sliding (and noisily crashing into one another) like amusement park bumper cars. Cars sliding down the street...Crash! into a parked car. Spin around, slide some more...Crash! into a parked car on the other side of the street. Slide and spin down into an intersection.

I'm glad I'm not out there. I wish my lovely and talented wife were home with me, but she's got that annoying Protestant Work Ethic thing going on. (So do I, but my office is closed.)

*Yeah, I'm sure people who live in Chicago or New York and many other areas that get real snow are (or would be) laughing and pointing and mocking us for our response to a couple of inches of snow. Well, those cities get a lot of snow and they're prepared for it. Portland? Not so much.

Comments

[sophiedb.livejournal.com]

The traffic's response to snow in southern England is much the same. The rest of the island laughs at us, but when you only see flakes once a decade it's not too surprising that we overreact *lol*

[kightp.livejournal.com]

It's miserable down here, too - things actually looked OK when I got up, but since then the steady slushfall has left a nearly frictionless layer on top of already frozen streets. I took a stab at getting out around 9 to make a doctor's appointment, but gave it up; just as well, because the doctor couldn't get in, either.