Oh the weather outside is frightful

Let it snow

Let it snow

Let it sn…ah, screw it.

Sure, it’s only an inch or two but when you have precious few snow plows and NO salt for the roads, well, things get nasty very quickly. Takaza made it into work today, but reports that the roads are treacherous and slick. With the temperatures not supposed to get above freezing, any snow that gets melted by traffic this morning is sure to refreeze into ice. Joy.

I reckon I’ll just stay home today.

4 thoughts on “Oh the weather outside is frightful

    1. roho

      Now, now! We have a fine covering of white on the ground here!
      …Granted, it’s the half inch of damn *salt* on the roads, but still! 😛

  1. Anonymous

    cold, too!
    …and here in the western half of the state, the high was 11F and is now falling at 2:45pm (9.5F), along with more snow AND lots of wind.
    brrrrr!
    very brrrrrrr!
    fuzzytoes
    taking care of Dad after heart surgery 🙂

  2. rustitobuck

    Well, we don’t have any precip on the ground here. The light, icy dusting we had a week or two back caused everybody to dump an enormous load of salt everywhere. Sidewalks sparkle in the sun. There are piles, three inches deep, of salt in the intersections. With no precip, there’s nothing to wash salt down the drain. Consequently, it gets ground up by tires and thrown to make all our cars into pretzels. And technically, we’re having a drought.
    It’s so cold (how cold is it?!) that the heat in my apartment building is barely keeping up. 70 up here. It’s below 65 in the neighbor’s apartment downstairs, where they have radiant heat on a slab below grade.
    Snow is an insulator. Without any snow cover, the frost line is moving downward. There are numerous water main leaks. I suspect that any slab or below grade housing is losing more heat through the floor. And I’m sure the building would be warmer with a foot of snow on the roof.
    And after being idle for two days, I just barely got the car to turn over.

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