This collection of entries is from November 24, 2004.
I didn't have a hat or gloves with me as I left the building. The wind was screaming, the snow/sleet mix pelted me in the face. I actually got one of those "brain freezes" as I walked to the car.
The car was coated with the snow/sleet. I was happy to find that I had left my gloves and earmuffs in the car! Yea! But then I realized I didn't have a brush to clean the car. I remembered a license plate frame that I haven't put on the front of the car. I used that to scrape the windows clean.
Finally on the road I found out that there were no plows, no salt trucks. I had trouble trying to make a left turn onto Higgins because the eastbound traffic kept blocking the intersection. Had to waith throuhg 5 lights.
Overall, from the time I walked out of the building until the time I walked into my house, it was almost one hour.
Can't wait to see what Winter is going to look like.
... in doling out criticisms of our local weather critters. I just got back from looking out our 11th floor window (there are no windows in the lab that I am working in). The view is... well, there is no view. All I see is snow blowing right to left. I can see the parking lot below, and it's only wet, but there is snow accumulating on the few cars left in the lot. There's snow accumulating on the grass below. The traffic on 53/I-355 is moving as if it were just raining. I just checked out my home Weathercam and it's the same, though it doesn't look like it's blowing like it is here (but then, home is only 4 miles away). I can watch the melted snow drip down my window pane on the camera, watch the school buses go through the neighborhood.
The power is fluctuating - I can hear the sound of AC buzzing through the floors in the lab. Great. I didn't expect power problems...
This has to be the most brutal thing I have read recently. I know Columbia is famous for abductions, but this is over the top:
Colombia police report abduction by C-section