Friday, November 19, 2010

How to build treacherous driving conditions:

1. Let the snow begin falling around 7:00.
2. It's still 40* so it's melting as it hits the pavement.
3. Continue to snow for the next few hours as temperatures drop.
4. This will coat the streets with a nice layer of ice and then snow.
5. It'll look pretty in the yard.
6. Make sure the temperatures drop enough so that, at 7:00 when your son is standing at the bus stop, it feels like MINUS 1* with the windchill.
7. Slip and slide your way to work.
8. Be grateful for antilock brakes and be even more grateful for a smart car that tells you (in case the back end of your car swinging around like salsa dancer didn't already clue you in) to turn on the antilock brake feature.
9. Get to school safely.
10. Realize you forgot your coffee at home, but bribe someone with 4-wheel-drive to make a coffee run.
11. Life is good.

2 comments:

Shelley said...

Chilly and gray here, but no snow today! Hope the trip home is less eventful.

Karen L said...

It certainly was miserable driving yesterday. We were all very late with our schedules but that means more pay.I hope it will be cleared up by Monday but it doesn't look likely now.