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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