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weather and human frailty
A colleague asked me yesterday as I was leaving work if I was going to work from home today. I said no, I was coming in because my class was beginning, and then I'd already be there. "Even with the weather," she noted.
I'm looking at about an inch and a half and still falling, in the particular way that snow falls here on the southernmost border of the temperate zone, i.e. heavly and wet and completely mystifying to nine-tenths of the people who will be driving in it. It can even, it must be said, be tricky to those who learned to drive in snow in some further-north place where the snow can be handled with a brush, on account of this is sticky stuff that turns to ice under very little pressure, and cakes up in tire treads and boot-heels.
Not that this is any excuse. It's like this every year, I mean to say, so one would think the respective Departments of Transportation and their road-safety folks and whatnot would get their heads around the problem.
Anyway, I'm about to put on a hat because I don't have time to blow-dry, and head off over to the Metro instead of driving. See y'all this afternoon!
I'm looking at about an inch and a half and still falling, in the particular way that snow falls here on the southernmost border of the temperate zone, i.e. heavly and wet and completely mystifying to nine-tenths of the people who will be driving in it. It can even, it must be said, be tricky to those who learned to drive in snow in some further-north place where the snow can be handled with a brush, on account of this is sticky stuff that turns to ice under very little pressure, and cakes up in tire treads and boot-heels.
Not that this is any excuse. It's like this every year, I mean to say, so one would think the respective Departments of Transportation and their road-safety folks and whatnot would get their heads around the problem.
Anyway, I'm about to put on a hat because I don't have time to blow-dry, and head off over to the Metro instead of driving. See y'all this afternoon!