Horrid Weather

[bjarvis]

It was raining a bit during my afternoon commute home. As I pulled up to the house, the rain had become sleet and hail.

Several hours later, I attempted to drive to the nearby Metro station to collect kent4str. As I stepped onto our front step, I discovered they were covered in a quarter inch of very wet ice. This discovery was made by having my feet fly out from beneath me and through the stair handrail, dumping me on my butt while slamming my left arm into the other handrail. Such fun.

I'm OK, but my (remaining) dignity is somewhere in the front yard still. I hope to find it in the morning.

In my second attempt, I tried leaving the house via the basement garage. The driveway had even more ice than the front steps; skating back to the house was a chore. There was no way I was going to attempt driving on this skating rink. With kent4str still waiting at the Metro station, cuyahogarvr and I set out on foot to meet him and escort him home.

The sidewalks were thick with ice but we found the streets weren't too bad thanks to anti-icing chemicals spread by the county earlier in the day. We walked down the middle of the street with only minor slipping.

Needless to say, we didn't go anywhere tonight even though square dancing with John Marshall was originally on the agenda. *sigh*

Comments

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

And I'm ever so grateful that you did. Just be glad you didn't have to skate across the pedestrian bridge...