Jan 14 2009
in which weather is less puzzling and more annoying
Yeah, so, it was -10° or colder for about two weeks straight, which was of course reason for whining; I mean, I may have got used to colder, windier, generally more miserable weather when I lived in Barrow, but then, when I lived in Barrow I had snow pants I actually wore and also I could go an entire week without leaving the house more than once. When it hits twenty below here, I still have to leave the house when it’s still dark to go to work, which also involves starting my car early to let it warm up, scraping frost off the windows, and driving downtown in painful cold until the car gradually gets so warm that my seat doesn’t feel like a board.
Well, last couple days it finally started warming up. Yesterday we got some snow. Last night the temp nudged above 32° and we got freezing rain.
Yep. Subzero weather to freezing rain within the space of a few days. In the pain and general annoyance of insane cold, I forgot how obnoxious weather like this is. Everything’s ugly and slushy now, but what’s worse (and much more dangerous), the roads are basically solid ice. School was closed, of course, since I have no classes today, and a bunch of people still haven’t come in to work, so the only thing I’m getting from actually getting here on time is a vague sense of superiority or something. I’d have been smarter just to sleep in and stay home, probably.
Wellll…no school today and you DO have classes…woohoo!