Superstorm 2011

[effex]

I 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!

Comments

[zanzando]

LOL, icy staircases in Germany means "Wheeee, snowboots on and let's slide a bit!"

[brewsternorth]

Oh hell. Six inches would be nothing in NY, but in Dallas would probably be comparable to the large lump of snow we got late last December that nearly shut us down. Presumably the local airports and so on are also flailing about a bit.

Good to hear finances are all done-did.