So, about The Day After Tomorrow...

[selenay]

I think my city is now shell-shocked by the weather. Sunday featured snow, which transitioned to rain and caused mass flooding on a lot of roads (two feet deep in a lot of places) due to volume of rain and snow melt.

And then, in the middle of the afternoon, the temps dropped by ten degrees in an hour and we had a flash freeze, with all that water still on the ground.

The phrase "entombed in ice" has now been used to describe a city in real life. It's like something out of The Day After Tomorrow here.

Two days later, and most of the roads are still dangerous to drive on. I've throw my back out, because I spend two hours on Sunday, moving slushy wet snow before it could freeze. Cleared my entire driveway and looked like an icicle when I got in, because the freeze was starting as I finished. Moving that much heavy wet snow killed my back.

At least it gave me an excuse to work from home today. Hopefully we'll see some improvement in the roads - it's supposed to be -6C and very sunny today, so the salt should have a chance of doing something, anyway.

And then we get another storm on Thursday.

I'm sorry, this blog has become a constant thread of "MOAR SNOW OMG". But really, venting is the only thing keeping me marginally sane right now. At least I've got a lot of food in and don't need to leave the house for a while.

Comments

[katlinel]

I think you should all be allowed to hibernate until spring is properly sprung. Glad you've got food, and vent away! It's reminding me of Laura Ingalls Wilder's The Long Winter, but I hope it ends long before May.

[selenay]

I'm holding out hope for March, although the forecasters keep trying to tell me that I'm wrong to do that.

Maybe I shouldn't attempt to read The Long Winter right now. It might depress me too much.

[fyrdrakken]

They're busy running us into the ground at work because we're badly understaffed and there was a hiring freeze during the holidays when the workload was lower and we would have had time to get new employees trained up to a useful level. The thought of being housebound for a few days of knitting in front of the TV sounds really good to me right about now... (We got a smidgen of freezing temps and precipitation over the last few nights -- but not enough or at the right times to affect traffic.)

[selenay]

I lost interest in being housebound a couple of weeks ago :-) But being able to work from home when I need to is making this marginally less awful!

My back is very, very upset with me, it turns out.

[emmzzi]

I for one am enjoying the rants

[selenay]

:-D Nice to know I'm amusing in my snow-shocked horror!

[gonergone]

I'm sorry, this blog has become a constant thread of "MOAR SNOW OMG".

I am right there with you. I mean, at some point I should probably have just gotten used to the 6 feet of snow all over everything, but it appears to be literally impossible not to complain about it constantly. Today I was helping a library patron with the computers and she mentioned that she's from Seattle, and I told her I was from Vancouver, and we shared a handclasp of Can You Fucking Believe This East Coast Bullshit Snow What Is This Even, and now I feel a lot better. Not better enough to stop complaining, but you know. Better.

[selenay]

That moment when you find someone who doesn't just go "meh, it's winter" is amazing :-D I grew up in England, so this is not normal for me. I think the locals find that hard to understand.

Can You Fucking Believe This East Coast Bullshit Snow What Is This Even

It's not snow, it's some kind of evil white force from beyond the end of time, sent to destroy civilization as we know it.