Superstorm 2011
Feb. 4th, 2011 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
effexI just want to flail about for a minute and then flop over, preferably onto my bed. It's a strange desire but it's been a strange fucking week so I'm fine with it.
Seriously, it's still cold and still snowing. We're at 6 inches*. In Dallas (the week before the Superbowl. I'm still laughing). It's very pretty if you're not out in it, but I had an attack of 'midwestern gumption' (my mom's phrasing) and ended up spending more than an hour out in it, so.
I got to work eventually. Only fell once.
* 6 inches is nothing until you realize that Dallas has no infrastructure to deal with this. The roads aren't plowed, there's no salt/sand/magical chemicals out on anything but the highways, water pipes aren't freeze-resistant, nobody has snow shovels, etc. We were actually trapped in our apartment the first day because the building's staircases are all external and the complex didn't/couldn't do anything to de-ice them.
In better news: I got my taxes all squared away (got a refund coming!), the bills are all paid, and today's Pay Day. I almost feel like an adult!
Seriously, it's still cold and still snowing. We're at 6 inches*. In Dallas (the week before the Superbowl. I'm still laughing). It's very pretty if you're not out in it, but I had an attack of 'midwestern gumption' (my mom's phrasing) and ended up spending more than an hour out in it, so.
I got to work eventually. Only fell once.
* 6 inches is nothing until you realize that Dallas has no infrastructure to deal with this. The roads aren't plowed, there's no salt/sand/magical chemicals out on anything but the highways, water pipes aren't freeze-resistant, nobody has snow shovels, etc. We were actually trapped in our apartment the first day because the building's staircases are all external and the complex didn't/couldn't do anything to de-ice them.
In better news: I got my taxes all squared away (got a refund coming!), the bills are all paid, and today's Pay Day. I almost feel like an adult!
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Date: 2011-02-04 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-04 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-04 06:27 pm (UTC)Today we had 5° C, which meant a delicate silk shirt and an open jacket, no scarf, hat or gloves for me. Also shorts and tights.
We have a good winter infrastructure, but say, -18° C means solid ice below the salt & sand anyway. Salt is actually illegal here now, since it's bad for the environment.
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Date: 2011-02-04 06:42 pm (UTC)Those stairs are already scary, I like my neck in one piece (well, 7 pieces).
That sounds about right for 5° C, depending on the kind of tights (not that I wear tights, but if I did I'd want 'em to be warm). It's -10° C here, though (I did the maths! And by 'maths' I mean 'I googled it'), and has been under 0° since Tuesday. Nobody knows how to deal with it :/
They don't salt here either, actually. It costs too much to fix the roads afterward (haha, what environmental concerns).
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Date: 2011-02-04 06:55 pm (UTC)Pfft, it was -12° C and colder for weeks.
Well my tights were the sheer backseam pantyhose type. So, not so warm.
Hmm. Interesting. Well with all the frost the roads have to be repaired anyway.
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Date: 2011-02-04 07:28 pm (UTC)It's just weird, is all. We went from 21° C (Sunday) to -7° C (early Tuesday morning) in 30 hours. And then the city shut down. It makes for cranky hothouse flowers.
[headdesk] And I'm totally a hothouse flower, five years in Iowa aside (still not as far north as Berlin). I grew up in a desert, I can't help it! Snow belongs up on mountains.
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Date: 2011-02-05 06:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-05 12:34 am (UTC)Good to hear finances are all done-did.