Drip
Driving to work Thursday, I could not understand why everyone was driving 10-20 MPH below the speed limit. The roads were dry, made no sense. Once in, found out the whole west and south of the valley had an ice storm, over 200 crashes, including some chain reaction collisions on the freeways, extremely slick roads. I suspect the other drivers, after doing 2 MPH on the freeway, felt that 20-30 was really fast.
All our staff and patients made it without incident, but the main hospital ER reported 37 broken bones by the end of the day. We expect to see some of them over the next week. The parking lot iced over by the time I got out. Dim light, low fog, strange acoustics, uncertain surfaces, worrying but warm. After so many days at 10˚, 25˚ felt nearly balmy.
In the morning, all the snow was covered in a shiny layer of ice, making it look more like a plastic model than anything real. My trax got me over the slippery crust to the car, skittered out the drive. D took Moby out, and he had to sniff everything thoroughly, a slow, sure, stalk out on the crust into the rose bush. A startle and hurry back in was not a success, as his paws skidded out from under him. A panicked cat on ice, I only wish I'd have seen it as well.
Warmer still yesterday, as much as I could tell, inside and running all the long day. D worked on the drive, chopped at the ice, noticeably, made a difference. Above freezing again today, melting more.
Not feeling up to much. Everyone at work irritable. This is usually when we get a bit of slack, and as much as job security is good, we are all getting ragged.
All our staff and patients made it without incident, but the main hospital ER reported 37 broken bones by the end of the day. We expect to see some of them over the next week. The parking lot iced over by the time I got out. Dim light, low fog, strange acoustics, uncertain surfaces, worrying but warm. After so many days at 10˚, 25˚ felt nearly balmy.
In the morning, all the snow was covered in a shiny layer of ice, making it look more like a plastic model than anything real. My trax got me over the slippery crust to the car, skittered out the drive. D took Moby out, and he had to sniff everything thoroughly, a slow, sure, stalk out on the crust into the rose bush. A startle and hurry back in was not a success, as his paws skidded out from under him. A panicked cat on ice, I only wish I'd have seen it as well.
Warmer still yesterday, as much as I could tell, inside and running all the long day. D worked on the drive, chopped at the ice, noticeably, made a difference. Above freezing again today, melting more.
Not feeling up to much. Everyone at work irritable. This is usually when we get a bit of slack, and as much as job security is good, we are all getting ragged.
Posted by Zhoen on Saturday, January 26, 2013
3 comments:
ragged indeed.
Our thaw hasn't yet arrived, currently -16C.
As for freezing rain and ice covering everything, I am certainly not unfamiliar with that.
Happy memories of the aftermath of an ice storm in Indiana when I was very young: the trees encased in their icy prisons, school cancelled, and ice skating around the front yard...
One of the Boston ice storms covered the Fenway park - not the baseball one, the waterway one. People were ice skating on the basketball court.
I grew up with them as well, but here, it's very rare.
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