Post Blizzard

I tried to go to work today, I really did. It took me 15 minutes to drive around the block, slipping all the way despite the good tires and traction control. The street was a sheet of ice. A cookie sheet, with high walls. About 3 inches thick. All ice.

So I came home, called in, and started on homework. It took about 4 hours, interrupted, and came out 18 pages long. That was one assignment for one class. It is a very tough class.

Then in the late afternoon I got cabin fever, so hubby and I went to run a few errands. (Son was playing at a friend's house, learning to snowboard on the kid's front lawn, it turns out.) It was nice to get out of the house, but we passed by many cars still in ditches and some new accidents involving cars without the good tires hitting an ice slick. We also drove over many high spots where, thankfully, the warm sun today had melted the snow enough for us to get over them. Who knows what would happen if we drove over those same spots now that the sun's gone down and the temperature's dropped.

I'm very glad I didn't go to work this morning.