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missbuster replied to your post “weird little real-life updates”

The musical life updates (and snurgling the dog!) sound lovely and it’s fantastic you are getting new doors. Are you in this current weather that’s tearing a strip off Kingston and Area? We might get the most snowfall we’ve had all season in the next 24 hours. o_o

I saw this and sort of chuckled yesterday because it rained all day but this morning i woke at four and haven’t been able to get back to sleep and wandered out into my living room and through the larger window in my brand-new front door I noticed a weird quality to the light, and so I went and peered out and was like

oh that’s a bunch of snow, huh

so. I guess so. We haven’t had to shovel our driveway yet this year. I mean, we have done so; we’ve snowblowed once, and I shoveled it one evening because it wasn’t that much but it was supposed to get real cold and I didn’t want to have a gross sheet of lumpy ice for two weeks, so. But anyway we’ve for sure got like five inches or more out there now and still coming.

Plow went by like quarter after 4 so at least they’re on the ball.

I’m bummed, I’d thought about playing hooky from work and doing some housecleaning and bread-baking and such but I feel like i can’t call in when it’s snowy and gross because my coworker’s got a half-hour commute and mine is literally three to five minutes, so. 

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missbuster replied to your post “vortex schmortex”

I’m living in the country this winter and I just ordered snowshoes for walking the dogs. I don’t have the in-town adventures you have but we do share the same weather bubble quite often so

ms-daphne replied to your post “vortex schmortex”

@missbuster snowshoes are THE BEST THING. Global warming has given my place 4 months of rain followed by 2 months of sleet and I miss actual snow so much. It’s so quiet when it snows.

[my [B’s] response, which I’m bracketing so the buggy crossposter can figure out who’s talking]: Yeah I wish I had some, I grew up using snowshoes sometimes, and actually Farmsister had some she used to walk to class in Cornell (at one point in her undergrad career she slipped on the ice in those fucking gorges so badly her femur broke her tibia, so that was pretty fucking intense). Normally, I’m on sidewalks, so there’s no point to snowshoes and they’d actually just get in the way. 

My mom tried to give me her YakTrax when I was visiting a couple of weeks ago, which are those metal mesh studs you pull on over your shoes for better grip, but I turned them down because even icy concrete is really mostly concrete, and I just feel like I’d wear the trax out fast because the ice isn’t thick or omnipresent enough. Mom uses hers to walk three miles from home to her office in the town hall. 

But man. I said I’d get in there today, and it’s.. well, it’s 4 now, and it’ll drop to 0 in the next couple hours, and it’s coming down hard, we’ve had about a foot, and it’s going to continue until 1pm.

With the snow, I feel like it’d be easier to walk than to try to free my car. (The plows haven’t been down my road since yesterday, and clearly, school is canceled, there’s no traffic, so who knows what kind of snow removal we’re gonna get today.) But with the cold, and the fact that literally nobody is going to have plowed, it’s likely to be an exhausting walk.

However! It being an exhausting walk means I sure won’t be too cold. As long as I’ve got no exposed skin, I’m likely to be safe enough. 

I just have to get there, and I only have a couple of hours of work to do. 

*sigh* I wish my bosses gave hazard pay. But, better this than the old location, where it was seven miles each way and the official policy was that we’d close if there was a driving ban but in practice that meant that employees often were expected to be there until the ban was enacted, and then were unable to leave. (That was the old boss; he literally made a guy sleep over in the store rather than letting him leave safely. To man a retail store! to which customers couldn’t come! because it wasn’t safe! it was fucking stupid. I hope the kid stayed clocked in all night.)

Anyhow this is me: I’m right in the middle between where it says “Buffalo” and “Tonawanda”, and I gotta walk through that beautiful gif at some point. Sigh. 
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