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Ice and Fire....Well, no fire.
Jan. 26th, 2004 10:23 pmGuh. I am rarely one to complain about the weather because, well, I barely notice it most of the time, and besides: when the weathermen are calling for a Snowstorm of Doom, my Cavalier has been known to laugh derisively and just go on about it's business because I swear that damn car can dig through anything. It's like a Jeep in Cavalier's clothing, I think. But there's one thing my Cavalier won't face, and neither will I: ice.
So when I woke up today to all kinds of weathermen prognosticating the End of the World in Ice, I was a bit nervous--but, then again, as I went in to Penn State today the roads were completely bare of trouble and, besides, the forecasters have been wrong a lot recently, so I wasn't really expecting much of anything. Apparently, the earlier hours of the day had been pretty yucky, but I didn't even hit the road until 1pm, by which time the roads were okay as far as I could tell....
Nonetheless, Penn State Fayette's entire campus was delayed by an hour, and even with the delay, my first class of the day only had five people in it...so I didn't expect a big turnout for my evening class anyway. So I went down to the library to grade some papers and stuff, and during that time--completely silently--the evil gods of Bad Weather dumped an inch of ice on the campus. I had to run up to the Mall to have the Verizon people fix the antenna on my phone, which mysteriously popped out this morning, and as I walked out of the library, all unknowing, I damnear skated across the parking lot to my car...which, I discovered ,was so heavily encrusted in ice that I couldn't hack it off with my ice-scraper, and it took nearly 20 minutes to defrost!
Still, I figured...Penn State always gets hammered by weather, considering it's at one end of a huge empty plain that receives a vicious amount of wind. I supposed that maybe the rest of town would be safe. Well, it wasn't....On the way to the Mall, every exit on the highway was the scene of thousands of spinning red lights and cars in ditches. The roads weren't too bad at that time, but apparently a lot of people were caught in the storm and hideously devastated. I barely made it to the Mall without skidding into a ditch or a tree a couple of times, and while I was getting my phone fixed, I heard that another inundation of ice was coming. So, fuck it, I said: there would only be 1 or 2 people in class that night anyway, so I cancelled it. Now we're a day behind but...well, it shouldn't be too hard to adapt there.
The suck thing is, though, I had to call off going in to the newspaper, too...because I sure as hell don't want to deal with driving home in ice-locked conditions at 1 in the damn morning. And if the roads were that bad at 5:30, I can only imagine what they'd be like later....Screw it. So here I sit, listening to Hall & Oates and playing with Kristi (I've decided to start spelling her namje the right way, since that's how it appears on her adoption certificate and stuff), and soon to bed. Yay! More sleep!
So when I woke up today to all kinds of weathermen prognosticating the End of the World in Ice, I was a bit nervous--but, then again, as I went in to Penn State today the roads were completely bare of trouble and, besides, the forecasters have been wrong a lot recently, so I wasn't really expecting much of anything. Apparently, the earlier hours of the day had been pretty yucky, but I didn't even hit the road until 1pm, by which time the roads were okay as far as I could tell....
Nonetheless, Penn State Fayette's entire campus was delayed by an hour, and even with the delay, my first class of the day only had five people in it...so I didn't expect a big turnout for my evening class anyway. So I went down to the library to grade some papers and stuff, and during that time--completely silently--the evil gods of Bad Weather dumped an inch of ice on the campus. I had to run up to the Mall to have the Verizon people fix the antenna on my phone, which mysteriously popped out this morning, and as I walked out of the library, all unknowing, I damnear skated across the parking lot to my car...which, I discovered ,was so heavily encrusted in ice that I couldn't hack it off with my ice-scraper, and it took nearly 20 minutes to defrost!
Still, I figured...Penn State always gets hammered by weather, considering it's at one end of a huge empty plain that receives a vicious amount of wind. I supposed that maybe the rest of town would be safe. Well, it wasn't....On the way to the Mall, every exit on the highway was the scene of thousands of spinning red lights and cars in ditches. The roads weren't too bad at that time, but apparently a lot of people were caught in the storm and hideously devastated. I barely made it to the Mall without skidding into a ditch or a tree a couple of times, and while I was getting my phone fixed, I heard that another inundation of ice was coming. So, fuck it, I said: there would only be 1 or 2 people in class that night anyway, so I cancelled it. Now we're a day behind but...well, it shouldn't be too hard to adapt there.
The suck thing is, though, I had to call off going in to the newspaper, too...because I sure as hell don't want to deal with driving home in ice-locked conditions at 1 in the damn morning. And if the roads were that bad at 5:30, I can only imagine what they'd be like later....Screw it. So here I sit, listening to Hall & Oates and playing with Kristi (I've decided to start spelling her namje the right way, since that's how it appears on her adoption certificate and stuff), and soon to bed. Yay! More sleep!
