RSSIt’s nice, but not today
Feb 04
A picture of my house during the January 9-10 ice storm.
It’s snowing. Again.
I’ve lived along Arkansas’s southern-most border all of my life (if you don’t count they times I was away at college). I can’t remember ever having this much winter weather. Even the great ice storm of 2000 didn’t seem to last this long. The power outages lasted for weeks, but the winter precipitation itself seemed to come and go fairly quick. I sure don’t recall ever missing school or work this much in one season.
Today marks our third “snow day” of 2011. The first two came on January 9-10 when we received a few inches of ice that just wouldn’t melt. At least we’re getting snow today. It’s very pretty to watch it float from the sky, but it’s messing up my plans.
Yep, I’m being selfish. I’d rather be at work right now. You see, if I was at work right now there would be a good chance that the roads were going to be passable tonight. But that’s not the case. From media reports I’m receiving, roads are pretty treacherous in parts of the state to our north. I’d like to go to Hope this evening, but it looks like it will have to wait until tomorrow.
Why Hope? Well, dear readers, there is a very special girl in that southwest Arkansas town with the claim to fame of being the birthplace of Clinton (you know, Bill, the president, married to Hillary). I haven’t seen her since Sunday. I’m kind of going through withdrawals.
Modern technology will have to get us through one more day. If the roads are still bad tomorrow, I may have to call on of my National Guard friends. Maybe they’ll loan me a Humvee.
