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Apr. 11th, 2007 05:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoSo I was supposed to go to a meeting in Rockford this afternoon, which fortunately was cancelled due to the weather. The boss called me at home to tell me, in case I hadn't checked my e-mail (which I hadn't, but probably would have in time.) Having no idea how bad the roads actually were, I told her I'd be in at 12:30 then.
I actually got there at 1 pm, after detouring around a closed section of road and slowing down for multiple spinouts and pileups along the road. It's amazing just how totally stupid people can be. How the race survived this long after the invention of the automobile I have no idea. It's obvious that many of us don't have the necessary intelligence to deal with it. Conditions were extremely bad. Where the wind blows across the road, the slush was often piled so deep it would scrape the undercarriage of the car, and my car has a higher clearance than most.
I arrived at work just in time to meet the boss who was coming out to go to lunch. She told me not to go in the back door because she had just waded through knee deep drifts there. So I went to the front door, wading through only mid-calf drifts. The library was packed because the local garden club wasn't bright enough to cancel their monthly meeting. Not long after I got there, the chairperson of the city library board called to tell us we should close. The schools had been closed early, she said, and conditions were very bad on the roads. That's a decision I can't make really, so we waited for the boss to return. After some discussion, she decided to go ahead and close at four, so we put up signs announcing the fact, posted it on our web site, and prepared to push people out the door. (Yes, that's necessary. No matter how many signs you put up on the doors and at the entrance, they still act surprised when you tell them the library is closing now...)
We actually got the place cleared out by about 4:15. I found on the way home that the roads had been pretty well cleared and were just wet, so of course people were driving like total brainless idiots again. I was behind a plow that was slowing at every drift to clear it off the road, so of course some jerk had to tailgate me for several miles, then pass me in a no passing zone and tailgate the snow plow. If there's a hell, I hope it has a nice, unpleasant spot reserved for people who are in such a hurry that they are willing to endanger everyone else on the road rather than wait a minute or two.
The weather forecast still predicts a second wave of this slush for this evening, with an additional fall of up to three inches. It shows on the radar, apparently coming up from the southwest, so we'll see what happens.
I actually got there at 1 pm, after detouring around a closed section of road and slowing down for multiple spinouts and pileups along the road. It's amazing just how totally stupid people can be. How the race survived this long after the invention of the automobile I have no idea. It's obvious that many of us don't have the necessary intelligence to deal with it. Conditions were extremely bad. Where the wind blows across the road, the slush was often piled so deep it would scrape the undercarriage of the car, and my car has a higher clearance than most.
I arrived at work just in time to meet the boss who was coming out to go to lunch. She told me not to go in the back door because she had just waded through knee deep drifts there. So I went to the front door, wading through only mid-calf drifts. The library was packed because the local garden club wasn't bright enough to cancel their monthly meeting. Not long after I got there, the chairperson of the city library board called to tell us we should close. The schools had been closed early, she said, and conditions were very bad on the roads. That's a decision I can't make really, so we waited for the boss to return. After some discussion, she decided to go ahead and close at four, so we put up signs announcing the fact, posted it on our web site, and prepared to push people out the door. (Yes, that's necessary. No matter how many signs you put up on the doors and at the entrance, they still act surprised when you tell them the library is closing now...)
We actually got the place cleared out by about 4:15. I found on the way home that the roads had been pretty well cleared and were just wet, so of course people were driving like total brainless idiots again. I was behind a plow that was slowing at every drift to clear it off the road, so of course some jerk had to tailgate me for several miles, then pass me in a no passing zone and tailgate the snow plow. If there's a hell, I hope it has a nice, unpleasant spot reserved for people who are in such a hurry that they are willing to endanger everyone else on the road rather than wait a minute or two.
The weather forecast still predicts a second wave of this slush for this evening, with an additional fall of up to three inches. It shows on the radar, apparently coming up from the southwest, so we'll see what happens.
