I'm over the snow, and I don't even have to deal with it! I feel bad for people who have to shovel, and drive, and park.

AND shit gets plowed like crazy here, and then they take a lot of the snow away, eventually! Not much has melted naturally, but a lot has been trucked away. I was just remembering 95-96, when my street in DC never got plowed, ever.

Yeah, this is going to take a while. Especially since Lulu's routine was kind of intense there towards the end, with the diapers and the multiple medications and whatnot.

It took us at least half an hour to feed the pets for about the last year of Chloe's life. Now it takes 4 minutes. That? Is freaky as hell. When I let both dogs outside, I'd have to physically put myself between the dogs and the top of the basement stairs, so she didn't fall down them, and now I just open the door and Kato hauls ass on through. Also freaky.

amyth, I'm so sorry for your loss.

Yeah, the whole not having to take care of the elderly, special needs dog anymore was hard to grasp. It still is sometimes and he's been gone since last May.

I just told my boss that if the weather's as bad as they're predicting for Wednesday that I would not be coming in to work at all. She wasn't too thrilled

What? Did she expect you to try and drive during a blizzard? How about she meet you there? Or if she really needs you to work, how about getting you a laptop to take home for Tuesday night/Wednesday.

how about getting you a laptop to take home for Tuesday night/Wednesday.

This! If everyone else can work from home why can't you?

Did she expect you to try and drive during a blizzard?

Yeah, odds are the city will tell people not to drive unless it's an emergency....

My mother was just telling me a story about the job she got when I was little. I guess they were concerned both about her being a mother, and about how far she lived from the office (it was an hour commute). So the first snowstorm, she got in the damn car and drove to the damn office....to find just one secretary, who lived close to the office, there. Of course none of the bosses were there! At least one boss called in, so she got credit for it.

I feel kind of bad for you all east of Utah, because we've had just one bad storm this winter, and we're better set up for this sort of thing than you folks. All our snow's staying up in the mountains where it belongs. (but I don't feel so bad that I want to take the weather for you)

We've been missed by a couple of these storms, and the rest have hit here as a few cms of snow and then a whole dump of rain. So we have maybe 5 cms on the ground right now, most of which fell overnight. It's a topsy turvy world.

I was just remembering 95-96, when my street in DC never got plowed, ever.

I remember that winter. I was living in Baltimore, and I skiied to the grocery store, which had (of course) no bread, so I bought flour and made my own.

And yeah, Baltimore just doesn't have the infrastructure to deal with three feet of snow, so they never plowed my little cul-de-sac at all. And when I did try to go to work, because the roads were clear, there was nowhere to park because they hadn't been able to plow the parking lots.