All Hell's A Coming

Sometime tonight, or tomorrow, continuing into Monday, we're supposed to get creamed with a Nor'easter. Talk around the shop has the estimates at anywhere from six inches to three feet, so who knows? We had a good storm Thursday that dumped six inches on us, and that was hellish enough. Traffic leaving Rugers was backed up from the traffic circle in Newport almost all the way back to the shop. I stupidly decided to take Winter Street, which has a slight incline, and while the snow wasn't especially deep yet the roads hadn't been touched, and my poor little babygirl barely made it up the hill. You'd think with a name like Winter Street I might have detected the omen inherent there, but no. My plans were to go to Lebanon that afternoon, since it was payday, but the roads were in horrible condition, so that got scrapped until last night.

Tomorrow is supposed to be worse. People are already planning on not going to work Monday in the wake of this storm that's grown to almost biblical proportions even before the first snowflake has fallen. I live closer than anyone else in Mini-14, so I really have the least excuse not to make it ... even though that was also true of my department at LSI and I used to call out on snowdays whenever I damn well felt like it. But that was then and this is now, and I'm trying to establish a level of dependability above the usual levels. So far I haven't missed a day in six months. That's far shy of my old FMC runs where I'd go 15 months without a sick day (although I did use scheduled personal days, but that isn't the same), but we'll see how it goes.

My little Honda fairs reasonably well in the snow, but I'm not going to push my luck. I'm going to Keene later tonight to see my dad perform, but I'm coming back after rather than staying in Massachusetts. Jade (the car) and I had a rough experience once when I came back on a New Year's Day during a blizzard, which was just a trickle in Bernardston, light snow in Brattleboro, and a heapload of snow by the time I got into the mountains of Springfield and Windsor. Well, we're not having a repeat of that. Nope, I'm going to stay in tomorrow, work on Chapter 9, do some other stuff around the house I need to do, and probably help out shovelling the driveway.

Other than that, I'm not going far.