If Mother Nature really loved me, she wouldn't have given me snow in the first place.

[apocalypsos]

Came home nine hours early from work, and apparently it was a good idea. If I'd left work now it would have taken me two hours to get home if I were lucky when it usually takes me twenty minutes.

I may be the only person I know hoping we get another fourteen feet or snow or something. Declare a state of emergency, Pennsylvania! It seems only fair considering I've been sitting here for hours and have yet to see a real snowplow. I think I've seen two and at this point I'm pretty sure I hallucinated both of them.

I want a state of emergency because it turns out that's the only thing that won't have human resources at work assuming that I am in fact a yeti and can somehow easily trudge a good twenty miles or so in two feet of snow. You'd think my height alone might be a sign that I'm not the Abominable Snowman as well as my complete inability to say "abominable" without sounding like a toddler with an unfortunate stutter but the way my boss described it human resources exists gleefully in a bubble of giddy ineptitude where I am in fact the Littlest Snow Monster That Could. Perhaps this is a sign I should get a new job, perhaps one where I could make snow cones and take nature hikes in front of easily excited people with crappy video cameras.

And tonight I get to try to drive to work, which should be fun because I'm guessing I'll arrive at work to discover I'm the only idiot who didn't bother to use a personal day. I'm going to run an entire CD factory by myself! It'll be just like Career Opportunities! Except, you know, at no time will I rollerskate through the aisles wearing boxers and a wedding veil.

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[beanarie.livejournal.com]

Would a state of emergency close the courts as well? If so, I'm allllll for it.

[thechinesecurse.livejournal.com]

Except, you know, at no time will I rollerskate through the aisles wearing boxers and a wedding veil.

If you do, and post pictures, I will get you a PONY. A pony made entirely of AWESOME.

[astrothsknot.livejournal.com]

And in Scotland....it's a beautiful spring day.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Think so ... I'm not too sure, though. I know it means they shut down the roads, which means there's no way in hell I'm getting to work tonight unless I suddenly learn how to teleport.

[haitchem.livejournal.com]

I love getting on LJ and hearing about snow while I suffer through horrendous summer weather, such as we had here the last fortnight or so. Ranging from 37C to 42C during the day (that's around 100F to 107F) and not dropping below 28C (82F) at night, I would sweat in my sleep and dream of eight foot snow banks and wake to curse you all to the nth degree. Luckily (in terms of my sanity) things have cooled off...it's nice right now.

[haitchem.livejournal.com]

I also meant to say...the image of rollerblading in boxers and a veil? I just flashed to Dean daring Sam to do it in a place like Walmart. Of course, wielding his trusty camera phone.

Yes, but this is you under discussion.

[seferin.livejournal.com]

Don't the odds increase dramatically if you hear that Jared and Jenson will be signing Supernatural DVD boxed sets at your work tonight?

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

IBC doesn't close for anything other than SoE either. If they were going to declare State of Emergency I needed them to do it BEFORE I left for work.

Now that I'm here? Well, I guess as long as they run transportation long enough for me to get home.

[kanedax.livejournal.com]

Might I mention how jealous I am, btw? Here in Minnesota we just got through a straight week of sub-zero temperatures, and only have three inches of snow to show for it. Not three inches in one storm, three inches for the whole bleeping winter.

I look at the pictures of upstate New York, and I sigh yearningly. If they're going to give us a winter, at least give us a little something for the effort.

[katbcoll.livejournal.com]

I say that you should pack the roller skates just in case. I hope you don't have to go into work. Although if you do, they should pay you the wages of everyone who doesn't show up. *nods*

[pushingyouaway.livejournal.com]

Except, you know, at no time will I rollerskate through the aisles wearing boxers and a wedding veil. but that's the best part!


*gives you chocolates* happy singles awareness day!

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

Happy v-day, regardless, so... yay?

[strix-an-stones.livejournal.com]

PennDOT is utter asshattery. Two days of playing "have you seen a yellow snow plow" and my husband has beent heonly one to spot one. The locals are pissed and starting to clear the state roads in silent rebellion. DOn't piss off the mountain folks is a core belief in Appalachia - and PennDOT just screwed the pooch Big Time.

But the roller skating in veil and boxers...too awesome! Do it. Take security's pictures for your friends.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is getting ridiculous. I may live in a small town, but I live on Main Street and the road outside my window is a disaster area. I woke up not to the sound of snow plows and dump trucks getting rid of the snow, but snowmobiles driving past my window.

I mean, there's no way in hell I'm getting to work in this mess unless an actual snow plow drives here to rescue me. (And also to shovel out my car, which I can't even see anymore.) I know we haven't had much snow up here all winter, but come ON.

[strix-an-stones.livejournal.com]

Totally. I don't live anywhere near a main road, about three mile off to be honest. We had the snow plow through (local municipal) at 7 a.m. and not since. I have to give these guys some credit they have over 100 miles of road to maintain and only four trucks, that is a killer job. But PennDOT has no excuse, they get more than simple Liquid Fuels allocations and have adequate trucks and man-power to do their damned jobs. That the local guys are getting stuck going from their roads over the unplowed state roads forcing them to open the state routes is patently unacceptable. I swear they are sitting back doign a half-assed job waitng for the storm to be declared a state of emergency so they can get bonus cash instead of touching their annual budget and turn everything into OT for their drivers. It is so obvious it should be criminal.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't even get me started. There are two ways for me to get home from work -- Interstate 81 and a business route that's the most cleared road in the area, and the short route, which is a highway. A highway that while not packed is still pretty busy, and it's NEVER plowed. EVER.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. You can have some of our snow but I wouldn't want New York's snow if I were you. A friend of my parents works in insurance and he said a colleague of his is getting people filing claims because the weight of the snow made their house collapse. *wince*

[kanedax.livejournal.com]

Yeep. Well, around here you're taught to clean the snow off your roof. Weight's a lot of it, plus the stuff on the bottom melts and turns to ice, tearing up your shingles. Guess some folks didn't know you're sposda...

[fingelverse.livejournal.com]

oh, people know they're supposed to clean the snow off. but the going rate for 3 guys with shovels on a roof in Oswego right now is $750 for the job, according to cnn.

I don't live there, but I've got a lot of sympathy for people who can't get their roofs clear themselves in that kind of storm.