The Inmates Run the Asylum

Going in to work wasn't too bad this morning. It'd stopped sleeting pretty early last night so there wasn't much to deal with.

Business started to pick up, as JR would say, around mid-morning after several of the out of town people left. (They basically just came in to get done what they could before it got bad.) Sleet and snow. Fun stuff. All of the shop guys left by noon and the only office personnel left were the ones that lived in town.

One of our drivers who lives in Indiana ended up getting stranded here, so he's staying in a hotel. He wasn't going to be able to beat the storm back home.

Chad went home for lunch, but I brought mine so I wouldn't have to leave. The wind really started to pick up out in the boonies where I work to the point of whiteout conditions at times. It was still mostly a snow/sleet mix.

A little after noon, the Internet went out. Chad came back from lunch and once it was determined that the Internet was going to be out for the rest of the day, I got sent home. We can't do anything without it.

Chad warned me that the wind was whipping the snow/sleet hard and he was right. That was some stinging business going on and I'm glad I didn't have to do much scraping to my car. The drive home wasn't too horrible if you don't count the curve where the road disappeared. I made it home just as the it went to straight snow and started coming down hard.

It did let up enough for me to grill. Snow up the shirt was chilly, though. The wind is pretty fierce. My firefighter friend posted on FB that another firefighter found an American flag blowing up the street, pole and all.

As of right now, I'm still on to go to work in the morning, though it might be late if they don't get the Internet back up. And I may be chauffered if we end up getting the ten to sixteen inches they're predicting. At least that's the last total I saw.

I bet the way the wind is blowing, it'll be more than just the road at that one curve missing.

Some people like a white Christmas. I am not one of those people as I spend my holidays driving (this year I've got three Christmases to attend). And today the weather decided to do some really heinous shit that involved raining and icing and general nastiness that's going to make driving tomorrow interesting and possibly death defying. Thanks for that, dick.

I had a passing notion to do the 2008 meme floating around, but then I realized I can't remember most of the past year.

You know how they say that if you remember the 60's, then you weren't there. Well, I could have been there and been sober and still not remembered them.

Yet another talent I possess that I don't get paid for.

I think tonight is going to be an early night for me. My holidays require a lot of sleep as they are very hectic. And I like to sleep.

Don't get paid for that either.

Hey, weather. Don't exactly care for you screwing with my plans. You're kinda pissing me off here. Have you seen the way people drive around here? They can't wing it when it's not icy. I have no desire to skate around with these people if you decide to unleash the freezing rain tomorrow afternoon when I'm coming home from my mom's house.

You're fucking up my intentions for my niece's birthday.

Keep it up and I will cut you.

Also, it's too cold. It makes my face hurt when the wind blows.