Welcome to late fall in New England
Dec. 9th, 2014 08:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It is 28F/-2C outside right now. I woke up to find everything in my apartment complex coated in ice and zero done with sand or salt about it.
The entire time I got ready for work a car was trying to get up the hill out of our apartment complex. When I walked out he had made it maybe 1 car length.
I watched another car slide down the same hill sideways with no control at all on the ice.
I came back upstairs and emailed my boss I’d be late as I physically can’t get out of my parking lot this morning.
It is supposed to get up to 42F/+5C with heavy rain and possible flooding by noon.
But, the ice will melt…
Winter officially starts in 9 1/2 days.
The entire time I got ready for work a car was trying to get up the hill out of our apartment complex. When I walked out he had made it maybe 1 car length.
I watched another car slide down the same hill sideways with no control at all on the ice.
I came back upstairs and emailed my boss I’d be late as I physically can’t get out of my parking lot this morning.
It is supposed to get up to 42F/+5C with heavy rain and possible flooding by noon.
But, the ice will melt…
Winter officially starts in 9 1/2 days.
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Date: 2014-12-09 02:09 pm (UTC)New ScotlandNova Scotia, too. I woke up yesterday and it was -7, and it's apparently been hitting -11 at nights! Luckily, it's just -0.5 right now...Drive safely! There was a bad truck accident on the big highway near where we live on Saturday, and we watched two cars slide off the road before we hit the proper highway, too. My brother and law and I also had to roll into a snow bank, because a big truck was covering the road out of nowhere and his brakes wouldn't kick in fast enough.
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Date: 2014-12-09 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-09 03:13 pm (UTC)This morning is grey and wet and 37F just like every morning last week. /sarcastic yay.
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Date: 2014-12-09 03:37 pm (UTC)Yeah Musesrealm got a call from her school at 5AM with a 2 hour delay, then an hour later canceling school.
We could hear a couple of cars squealing and sliding outside. We live on a very steep hill, so, not at all interested in going anywhere until
it warms up. I have to bring my car in today for part 2 of Find the Oil Leak. Ugh.
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Date: 2014-12-09 03:49 pm (UTC)This might warm you up slightly...if you look at it during the day anyway...
(sorry for the ice issues as well, winter is one of the main reasons I no longer live in the East coast...now my blood is so thin I freeze at 55!)
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Date: 2014-12-09 05:53 pm (UTC)So - did you get to work in the end?
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Date: 2014-12-09 07:06 pm (UTC)The days of -15 to -20C are coming...
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Date: 2014-12-10 11:59 pm (UTC)You need to find a new place to live!