Freezing rain and spitting snow

OK, so not really any snow, but we did have plenty of the freezing rain. It’s not supposed to be this bad this time of year, global warming my ass.

I went back and checked, and in all the time I’ve been keeping this journal/diary I’ve never been snowed/iced in this time of year. I got sent home from work early in consideration of the fact that the weather is generally worse over here than it is over there, how’s that for freaking irony?

I didn’t have a lot of trouble making it home, there were a few spots when I needed to use the brakes to keep from getting too fast and nothing happened, but whenever I slid it wasn’t very far and always in a straight line, so that’s good. Well, up until I got to the last two roads that is. I’m three roads off the highway, so it’s been a bit of an adventure the past few days getting out, but tonight it was a little hairy getting in. The first road off the highway was fine, it looked like it might have been salted at some point earlier in the day to get rid of the residual snow since schools were supposed to re-open tomorrow. The next road, however, which is normally dirt and gravel, was a solid sheet of ice. Didn’t even crack when I drove up on it. Considering it slopes down towards my road at somewhere between five and ten degrees and then gets steeper as it passes my turn, that made me pucker up a bit. It was a slow slide down, for the most part, and fairly straight. I did manage to stop/slow down enough before it drops off into the outlands to make the turn, and somehow my road was fine. I think it was because of the direction the wind was coming from.

Every forward facing surface, with the exception of the windshield (which I kept squirting de-icer on) is covered by at least a half-inch of ice. That’s how bad it was. And the drive, which can take as little as thirty minutes if I’m in a hurry, but more typically between forty and forty-five minutes, took an hour and fifteen. Not going out at all the next three days if I can help it unless it warms up considerably.

That’s all I’ve got for now, except I’m going to start stocking up on snow food again. I’ve let the kids eat it all over the past few months when I’ve had them unexpectedly and had no cash to eat out. That was a bit silly of me then wasn’t it?