Oh dear... The weather demons are being quite demonic tonight.

My uncle is stuck in Denver for at least three hours on his way from Oregon to Chicago to preside over his uncle's funeral. Mom is at my house and will fly out tomorrow.

I am staying here because my dad and stepmom are having a Christmas party for which there is no excuse to miss. I laughingly asked if death would be valid and they suggested I make sure I get my corpse cleaned up nicely and go mingle.

Can it be January?

The snow wasn't too bad when I left work (3 inches?), so I decided to take CTA home, despite the fact that their trains are much more likely to be affected by snow than the big diesel Metra trains. So I get to the Davis St station and it's more than twice as crowded than I've ever seen it. I only had to wait ten mintures for a Purple Line train, but it turns out that the two trains before it both had to be taken out of service because ice had messed up their doors, causing them to stick open or closed.

Anyway, it was fun to watch all the people and the cars dealing with the snow. I'm sure it would have been much less fun if I had to drive....

But I still need to choke a bitch.

Or maybe just have a glass of wine.

Gods Tep, that sucks poopy ass.

Woot for red hair, sj! Too bad I went dark brunette or else we'd be twins again.

Tomorrow my coworker dies. Especially since I need gas desperately and my normal station doesn't take checks.

Tep, glad you're home safe. You're welcome to choke my bitch coworker any time you want. I'll even pay for your flight.

sj, I'm heading over to yahoo!IM Right Now!

The 13-mile (I just checked on Google maps) commute that generally takes me 20-ish minutes took me 4 hours and 15 minutes.

Ho.Lee.Crap. I just got home myself. My usual 45 minute commute from school (about 15-20 miles) took me 2 full hours. Compared to 4 hours? That's nothing.

My uncle is stuck in Denver for at least three hours on his way from Oregon to Chicago

Uh. Oh. I've heard the delays at O'Hare are over 2 hours. Midway is virtually closed down because a plane had a bad landing and busted through the fence and ended up on the street. No one on the plane was hurt, but I heard 3 people on the street were wounded when their cars got hit by the plane.

I'm glad you're home, Teppy. But DAMN, that sucks. I managed to still get across town at the end of rush hour (6:30) in about 15 minutes in about 3 inches of thick, slushy snow.

Have a glass of wine--sounds like you need it.

Midway is virtually closed down because a plane had a bad landing and busted through the fence and ended up on the street. No one on the plane was hurt, but I heard 3 people on the street were wounded when their cars got hit by the plane.

Damn. A 737. Not a small plane.

{{{Teppy and Chikat}}} I'm so not going in if it is bad out tomorrow. Not for retail wages. No way.

And here, where we should have snow, it rains. Yeah for the snow days but boo for the crappy commutes.

They'd all probably work on you, but I do favor the first (and shortest) cut.

Why am I not surprised by this?

eta: Re-reading, it kind of looked like I was complaining about not getting the snow. I'm not. Really. We can keep rain. No snow or ice is fine by me.

I would be snotty and smug right now, but this is like the one time of the year when living in a soulless armpit on the surface of the sun works out. But I still have to be *here* so, really? Not ahead by much.