vortex schmortex
Jan. 30th, 2019 02:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I left work early today because we were getting lake effect snow. It actually started around 9am, which means I missed it entirely on my way in. My coworker commutes from a fair distance away, so I texted him and cautioned him about it. He didn’t know what I was talking about because it hadn’t hit him yet– lake effect bands are unpredictable and tend to have sharp edges, so a distance of a few miles makes the difference between whiteout and sunny day.
He decided we should go home early today, and he prepared to not come in tomorrow, but I kind of threw myself on my sword and volunteered to come in. Because really… 1) I don’t get paid if I don’t go in, and 2) I live a mile and a half away, there is basically no weather so bad I wouldn’t be able to get there given zero time constraints. I just have to be there long enough to make sure some buttons get pressed, process some things, and package some things to mail out, at some point between 9 am and 7 pm.
I shoveled about eight inches of snow off the driveway when I got home (and a fucking glacier off the end of the driveway where the plow had left us a souvenir, as always), and we’ve had another couple of inches since then. We’ll see what I wake up to.
But it wasn’t that cold today. It only got down to maybe 21. My coworker insisted on driving me home, and I didn’t protest, because walking in fresh snow is exhausting, but I wasn’t worried about the cold.
Tomorrow maybe I will be, but. Again: it’s 1.4 miles, the wind isn’t that bad, and I have very good cold weather gear; normally I’ve sweated through two or three layers by the time I get to work, and I bring clothes to change into. I have very good boots and I know what I’m about.
There are supposed to be 45mph winds tomorrow so maybe I won’t want to walk in that, but it might be safer to walk than to drive if the roads are bad. I’ll see how it looks. And I don’t have to get there right at 9, so.
We’ll see.
Hope everyone else is staying warm enough and doing all right. <3
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I left work early today because we were getting lake effect snow. It actually started around 9am, which means I missed it entirely on my way in. My coworker commutes from a fair distance away, so I texted him and cautioned him about it. He didn’t know what I was talking about because it hadn’t hit him yet– lake effect bands are unpredictable and tend to have sharp edges, so a distance of a few miles makes the difference between whiteout and sunny day.
He decided we should go home early today, and he prepared to not come in tomorrow, but I kind of threw myself on my sword and volunteered to come in. Because really… 1) I don’t get paid if I don’t go in, and 2) I live a mile and a half away, there is basically no weather so bad I wouldn’t be able to get there given zero time constraints. I just have to be there long enough to make sure some buttons get pressed, process some things, and package some things to mail out, at some point between 9 am and 7 pm.
I shoveled about eight inches of snow off the driveway when I got home (and a fucking glacier off the end of the driveway where the plow had left us a souvenir, as always), and we’ve had another couple of inches since then. We’ll see what I wake up to.
But it wasn’t that cold today. It only got down to maybe 21. My coworker insisted on driving me home, and I didn’t protest, because walking in fresh snow is exhausting, but I wasn’t worried about the cold.
Tomorrow maybe I will be, but. Again: it’s 1.4 miles, the wind isn’t that bad, and I have very good cold weather gear; normally I’ve sweated through two or three layers by the time I get to work, and I bring clothes to change into. I have very good boots and I know what I’m about.
There are supposed to be 45mph winds tomorrow so maybe I won’t want to walk in that, but it might be safer to walk than to drive if the roads are bad. I’ll see how it looks. And I don’t have to get there right at 9, so.
We’ll see.
Hope everyone else is staying warm enough and doing all right. <3
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Date: 2019-01-30 05:33 pm (UTC)But even my friend in Rochester texted me this morning like "come over for pizza tonight" and I was like "uh only if they lift the travel advisory" and she was like 'what why' because they're not getting any snow today at all. Lake effect doesn't stretch that far!