As of mid-morning, the snow is just entering SE New England. If my memory is correct, this is the third time in four years (2006 being the exception) that we’ve had a major afternoon snowfall in December messing up the commute. Remember last year? We’ve hopefully learned something.
My heart goes out to those still recovering from the ice storm and I’m hoping they are spared the worst of this.
I’ve been able to get things squared away this morning, so I’m home for the remainder. The kids get out of school at noon. My wife is still considering what to do about an afternoon appointment. At least it’s local. We have to prepare for a family gathering Saturday which will hopefully happen if the storm gets over as indicated by the forecast. I need to call grammer to ease her fears about driving tomorrow.
What’s going on with everyone else? Are you heeding the warnings or banking on the possibility that this is over-hyped?
They canceled all classes at UMass Dartmouth today — including my 8 AM final, which was my last one. It was sunny out!
damn! đŸ˜‰
I am here at work, overlooking the Pike at Exit 13. My co-worker mentioned that he thought it had taken me almost two hours to get home. I thought it was longer, so I checked my comment in last year’s thread. It was actually 2 hours and 39 minutes, instead of the usual 25.
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p>Pike is clear for now. Last year it tok me 35 minutes to drive the two miles that gets me on the Pike and past my own window!
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p>Kate
I go the heck out of there, as soon as it began to snow. This time, instead of 159 minutes, I was home in 32 minutes. If you are not already on the road, you should do the same.
The Puget Sound region is hilly and ill equipped with snow plows because snow happens here, but not often enough to justify buying the Machinery of Winter. Thus, streets get icy, busses jack-knife on the San Francisco-like hills, and traffic grinds to a halt. Outlying areas have have a foot or more of snow, but Seattle proper has had maybe 3 inches. Well, that’s all it takes ’round here!
When called at 8:30 AM to find out if they were going to be open, the law librarian explained that her “chain of command” is headed by the AOTC not the Governor, and that the library was open as usual.
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p>At a little before 1:00 PM, she went out of the library to a storage area, and a guard told her that the building was being closed at 1:00 PM. She verified, and so I had to shut down and leave at 1:00 PM.
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p>The librarian, with what I thought was justified frustration, said that if she had not gone out and seen a guard, they might have closed the building [the current site of the free county law library is at 200 Trade Center Drive near the rental quarters of Middlesex Superior Court] with her in it. She said this has happened before.
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p>At that point, in Woburn, there was at most a few flurries.
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p>Where I live, serious snow began a bit after 3:20 PM.
Yesterday was sunny and in the low 80s here in the Bahamas…