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November 28, 2006

Snow Day in C@L

Did they really just cancel Tuesday in C@L due to an inch of snow that fell early last night?

Woo-hoo! Was I ever fired up about my commute into the office this morning! Twenty-two minutes door-to-door (a weekday rush hour record) plus an absolutely primo parking spot (the likes of which one usually has to arrive by 6:30 am to secure -- not that I would actually know this, but I just assume). Instead of racing to make my 9 am, I'd have a solid 40 minutes to sip my coffee, fire off the day's opening salvo of electric mail, and peruse the sports sections of Philly.com.

The reason for my surprisingly mellow morning? C@L is having a Snow Day! Yup. We had a little snow last night, the temperature dropped below freezing, and the city just completely shut down. No school for the kids, and lots of offices closed for the day (including the eensy-weensy little software company where I work in Redmond). All this over roughly an inch and change of snow in downtown C@L (though admittedly they got a little bit more in the burbs). Still, without pulling too much rank as an out-of-towner and with a solid understanding that C@L's roadways were not engineered to deal with snow and/ or ice, let me say that this is me snickering with condescending/ smug glee.

(They closed the whole town! There isn't even any snow on the roads! Seriously! None!)

Of course, it was an entirely different story last night -- the night it took me a solid hour and forty-five minutes to make it home from Redmond. Sure, there was a football game in town [Go Nerdbirds! And for those of you watching at the end, I hope you caught Mike Tirico in his most Al-Michaels moment ever explaining that some parts of the audience were still interested in the game even though Green Bay was down 10 -- and driving -- with under thirty seconds to play...oh right, the line was 9.5...], but it was really the snow that gummed up the works. That wasn't so sweet.

Still, traffic is one thing (and the traffic can be bad even when it doesn't snow); appparently some folks had it much worse. I got into work this morning and listened to a coworker's tale of woe regarding spending the entire night in the ladies room at SeaTac. The reason? She arrived at the airport at 10 last night to find that no cars or buses were leaving the airport due to snow. Ummmm. Right. So they can land the planes in the snow but the cabbies refused to approach the airport? The public buses? Ridiculous. Apparently hundreds of people were stranded there.

Forgive me for a moment if I conflate the fact that I saw An Inconvenient Truth the other night (which I enjoyed immensely, though I could have used 60 percent fewer shots of Al Gore staring intently at his Powerbook) with this morning's events, but all I can think about as I watch C@L scratch its head in re: this unseasonal bout of cold weather is that the global climate apocalypse is nigh! This may be the beginning, but it isn't the end! Get ready, C@L! Property values atop Queen Anne will plummet as residents discover that there is no reasonable way to scale Queen Anne Avenue in icy conditions (though at least said hill will protect them from rising global sea levels)! C@Lites will actually get to use all their Himalayan-strength performance fleece (now available in brown, green, brownish-green, greenish-brown, and brownish-light brown) in a non-skiing situation! Ice scraper sales will skyrocket!

Or maybe it's just a random event. Either way, it sure looks like I'll be working from home a bit more this week.

Posted by thatkid at November 28, 2006 12:25 PM under C@L , ThatKid , The Papers

November 28, 2006

Snow Day in C@L

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