Thursday, January 17, 2013

Snow at last

The weather started getting bad this afternoon around three, with the endless rain (it's rained for a week!) mixing with slush and then turning to driving snow. Ordinarily I'd have worked until 4:30pm today, but thank goodness the college where I work decided to close at 3:30. It took me an hour to get home. Well, okay, ordinarily it takes me around 50 minutes and today I stopped on the way home to get a pizza, but still! An hour!

When I stopped for the pizza, I had a hard time stopping myself from doing donuts in the slush-filled, near-empty grocery store parking lot nearby.

I got home at last and put my car up in the garage, then grabbed my camera before the light went. Here's my little house in the cold and snow:

There's not much snow on the ground, and the falling snow turned to rain and then stopped completely, but I think it's supposed to start again in another hour or so. We might get another inch! What's less thrilling, of course, is that it's going to freeze tonight and everything is sopping wet from all that rain.

Here's the road just in front of my house.

And here's the commons, an open area just past the picture above. It's flooded from the rain. That will freeze tonight. Brrrr.


10 comments:

Michael McClung said...

Strap on your skates!

K.C. Shaw said...

I think I'll just watch other people try to skate/walk on the ice, and fall through. :)

Jameson T. Caine said...

No pictures of the pizza? ;)

I've never driven in snow. The very idea makes me ill.

K.C. Shaw said...

The pizza picture would mostly be of crusts. :)

I hate driving in snow. I wrecked in snow once and it made me even more nervous.

Ash-Matic said...

Nice pictures!
It only keeps pretending to snow here, and all the people hoping for snow days off work are getting very frustrated.

K.C. Shaw said...

I suspect this snow is about all we're going to get this winter. Last winter we didn't get any at all.

Cate Gardner said...

Your snow beats our snow.

K.C. Shaw said...

Alas, it's all gone now. That's probably it for this winter, but maybe you'll get more!

Richard said...

By the way, been re-reading Jack of All Trades recently. Fun stuff; need more.

K.C. Shaw said...

Thanks! I should write something similar to JOAT. That was a fun little book.