Snowfall 2025, Day 3
Jan. 24th, 2025 03:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyDay 4? I dunno. We're going with Day 3 because we're talking about Thursday. I really wish work had just been smart enough to preemptively call shit for the overnight for the week, because then I could've really possibly enjoyed my snowdays. Alas, it is never to be because they kept being open for at least part of the day. Why? Who knows. I did learn that they had been open for a bit on Wednesday, but was extra pissed to realize they'd closed at 6pm and that meant that I was the last employee to know when I had to send a text after 7:30. Ugh. Anyway.
I spent the day operating under the assumption that work would be expecting me to come in, so I was trying to keep a semi-normal (for me) sleep schedule and that also meant I went out and had to clean off the car. RIP, snow. You were so pretty. But at the same time, I was realizing pretty quickly that what work wanted and what it would be getting were two entirely different things. Because the store was supposed to open at 8am. At 9am when I checked the news to see how much snow we actually got (I think 4" is the general consensus), I noticed that the main bridge for my commute had closed. Around 8am. It didn't open again, btw, until late in the afternoon. Y'know, about the time the roads were supposed to refreeze because the temps were gonna freefall again. BRILLIANT. Anyway, surrounding counties called a state of emergency fairly early on in the day when they realized what all us non-idiots realized, which was that all the snow that melted the previous day had frozen into ice and now you had entire swathes of road encased in black ice. This was not helped by the snow plows apparently not doing a proper plowing, though fuck if I know what that is, but Cass who did live in areas with actual regular snowfall had many complaints when watching them in action on traffic cams. I did see them plow the overpass by us though last night, so I can cross that off the bucket list. :P
Anyway, I realized at some point that if I couldn't even get to the street from our parking lot without sliding across the ice, I wasn't going to be going in unless my brother felt like driving. (I didn't ask directly, but did ask how icy things were on his end and they were just as icy as I thought.) So with that in mind, and double checking with Mums, I finished clearing off the car, made two snow-ice balls that I still haven't thrown at Widget (he disappeared before I could) and then went back in to watch The Nanny. At dinner, I woke to multiple texts, which let me know the SM had created a third shift group text and had actually added me, asking if any of us would be able to work last night so he could let the pharmacist know whether to come in. I was the last to reply but the others were both decided Nos. I cackled to myself because dude, no. I do wonder if he got anyone to cover or if work was just straight up closed.
I'm at the tired of the snow/ice portion of my snowdays and also we kinda need food, so I'm hoping conditions improve drastically over the course of today.
I spent the day operating under the assumption that work would be expecting me to come in, so I was trying to keep a semi-normal (for me) sleep schedule and that also meant I went out and had to clean off the car. RIP, snow. You were so pretty. But at the same time, I was realizing pretty quickly that what work wanted and what it would be getting were two entirely different things. Because the store was supposed to open at 8am. At 9am when I checked the news to see how much snow we actually got (I think 4" is the general consensus), I noticed that the main bridge for my commute had closed. Around 8am. It didn't open again, btw, until late in the afternoon. Y'know, about the time the roads were supposed to refreeze because the temps were gonna freefall again. BRILLIANT. Anyway, surrounding counties called a state of emergency fairly early on in the day when they realized what all us non-idiots realized, which was that all the snow that melted the previous day had frozen into ice and now you had entire swathes of road encased in black ice. This was not helped by the snow plows apparently not doing a proper plowing, though fuck if I know what that is, but Cass who did live in areas with actual regular snowfall had many complaints when watching them in action on traffic cams. I did see them plow the overpass by us though last night, so I can cross that off the bucket list. :P
Anyway, I realized at some point that if I couldn't even get to the street from our parking lot without sliding across the ice, I wasn't going to be going in unless my brother felt like driving. (I didn't ask directly, but did ask how icy things were on his end and they were just as icy as I thought.) So with that in mind, and double checking with Mums, I finished clearing off the car, made two snow-ice balls that I still haven't thrown at Widget (he disappeared before I could) and then went back in to watch The Nanny. At dinner, I woke to multiple texts, which let me know the SM had created a third shift group text and had actually added me, asking if any of us would be able to work last night so he could let the pharmacist know whether to come in. I was the last to reply but the others were both decided Nos. I cackled to myself because dude, no. I do wonder if he got anyone to cover or if work was just straight up closed.
I'm at the tired of the snow/ice portion of my snowdays and also we kinda need food, so I'm hoping conditions improve drastically over the course of today.