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 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)