Yesterday: Surprise Snowstorm, 2009!

[holdouttrout]

I love when I get to use this icon. :-)

So yesterday, at about 2 pm, it starts snowing. That does happen here, occasionally, and the normal modus operandi for people here is to 1) gather around windows 2) ask if it's sticking 3) go back to work while it all melts.

Except yesterday it didn't melt. I left work early after several people saying that if you could get home now, to go because it wasn't going to melt until at least 8 pm.

It took me two and a half hours (that's five times as long as it normally takes me to get home) to NOT get home. I had to stop at my parent's house instead, and even then I had to walk a half-hour up a hill to get to their place. Fun times!

I know other people deal with lots more snow, but four (surprise) inches in the middle of the day is just not fun. There were probably hundreds of abandoned cars on the road this morning, and many people who really shouldn't and wouldn't have been out in the weather if oh, anyone had bothered predicting it. Yeah.

Highlights: watching various trucks and vans fishtail in front of me the whole way, sliding down a hill and managing to avoid crashing into another car only by some quick thinking and a lot of luck, putting borrowed long underwear on my head in place of a hat to walk to my parent's home, having a fun snowball fight with my dad on said walk, and my mom making me a SPECIAL BATCH OF HOMEMADE MACARONI AND CHEESE just for me. :-)

Comments

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

Hey! I want macaroni, too! We got snow! *licks lips*

:-D

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Hee! *sends you a container with nice, hot virtual mac and cheese*

[katcorvi.livejournal.com]

Snow makes everything more exciting, but I'm all excited about the homemade macaroni and cheese. Yum!

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

It was SO GOOD. I don't know if it was just because I was hungry or what, but it tasted extra delicious this time, too.

[rdamel.livejournal.com]

4 inches and everyone goes nuts? Sounds odd to this Midwesterner. Mind you, unless we are young, we are not usually HAPPY to see snow, but we've had our second blizzard for the month--on Christmas, too, how unfair is that! and most of us are still coping. The smarter ones stayed home--I did, on Christmas, which was disappointing. My sister, on the other hand, was determined to get to my dad's farm and so risked the lives of her entire family to get there. I was quite annoyed with her, but luckily they all survived it.

We got over a foot of snow, and then it snowed another 2 inches today, alas. I get out and shovel snow for about 30 minutes a day--I figure that's enough of a cardio workout for me! Today it warmed into the thirties, which was great, but the melting slush will all freeze solid soon as we are due to go way back down in temperature for several more days. And winter's barely started--I want Spring! Now!!

I'm glad you survived all the scary driving. Take care!
Melissa M.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Four inches for us is more than four times "normal." Although we should re-write the definition of normal after the last few years, apparently.

I hope the frozen slush doesn't create too much of a problem for you!

[rdamel.livejournal.com]

I need a beach picture to warm me up! When I went out this morning, sure enough, yesterday's slush had frozen solid, everywhere, and it was a balmy 6 degrees above zero. And all of us to whom this is routine, grumble about it every year, think longingly of living somewhere warmer, but then most of us stay right here. I looked up RDA's home state of Minnesota and its weather for another fan friend who lives in Wales, and I see that Minnesota has much the same weather extremes that we do here in NW Missouri, except that their deep freeze is much worse than ours and lasts longer. So by comparison, we're in good shape! It just doesn't feel much like it right now, knowing we have close to 3 months of winter left before things start warming up. Sometimes we have nice weather in March, but not too often.

I hope you are safe and warm at home--as I am!
Melissa M.

[peri81.livejournal.com]

This seems to be the year of the surprise snow.

I don't know how people live in states that get snow all the time in winter. They must be crazy!

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

I think you much get used to it. It seems really foreign to me, having grown up here. I'm still getting used to the fact than an inch no longer automatically means a day off. School was so NICE that way. *g*