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jazzfishWoke up yesterday feeling vaguely disgruntled and out of time. Outside the window was brighter than I'd expected, and the Fairfax County Gov't website proclaimed "open but with liberal leave in effect." That seemed like a good excuse to call in snowy, and catch up on various things that have been going undone lately.
The "snow" stopped pretty quickly. I got a decent amount of stuff done, and had a good bath, and generally pretended the outside world didn't exist. Then around 3 I got a text fromuilos saying she was coming home early for snow. Yep, it had started falling again.
An hour later (from what's normally about a half-hour trip, if that) she got in. The snow kept falling. Reports of godawful traffic began trickling in, then getting worse.
uilos called up a traffic map around seven, out of curiousity. The parts of the DC area that weren't red were black. There seem to have been some bad wrecks near Tysons, too: at least one of my friends had his seven-mile commute take four hours.
We've been lucky enough to still have power, too: a couple of flickers, but nothing worse.
Today I dug out Straylight and came in to work. There's one other tech writer here, and I think there are a half-dozen other people somewhere on this floor. It's nice and quiet.
Snow: still the best weather ever.
(My only regret is that this is some excellent packing snow, and I'm not getting to make any snowmen.)
The "snow" stopped pretty quickly. I got a decent amount of stuff done, and had a good bath, and generally pretended the outside world didn't exist. Then around 3 I got a text from
uilos saying she was coming home early for snow. Yep, it had started falling again.An hour later (from what's normally about a half-hour trip, if that) she got in. The snow kept falling. Reports of godawful traffic began trickling in, then getting worse.
uilos called up a traffic map around seven, out of curiousity. The parts of the DC area that weren't red were black. There seem to have been some bad wrecks near Tysons, too: at least one of my friends had his seven-mile commute take four hours.We've been lucky enough to still have power, too: a couple of flickers, but nothing worse.
Today I dug out Straylight and came in to work. There's one other tech writer here, and I think there are a half-dozen other people somewhere on this floor. It's nice and quiet.
Snow: still the best weather ever.
(My only regret is that this is some excellent packing snow, and I'm not getting to make any snowmen.)
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Date: 2011-01-28 12:19 am (UTC)Although apparently one of
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Date: 2011-01-27 09:09 pm (UTC)(And yes, it is indeed excellent snow for snowmen. Heh.)
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Date: 2011-01-28 02:39 pm (UTC)The one coworker who showed up yesterday did so by walking. He did mention that on Wednesday he had a very nice two-hour nap on the bus, during which they'd moved a mile and a half.
I only saw two snowmen yesterday, which was disappointing. On the other hand, one of them was right next to a large black stone pyramid, which had been reflecting heat onto the back of the snowman, so he was kind of arched over backwards. So that was neat.