Oh the weather outside is frightful....

So I'm stuck at home today. All of the regional schools have cancelled classes and we are expected to get anywhere from 4-16 inches of snow, depending on what part of eastern Iowa you live in. Already the roads are covered in ice and hidden by several inches of snow. The wind has picked up and is furiously whipping the snow around, making it difficult to see. Driving in a snowstorm like this is like trying to drive through a heavy thunderstorm. You have to drive with your headlights on low beams because the reflection of high beams off of the dropping snow is the same as the reflection off of rain. All you see are these white chunks flying at you and the road becomes invisible.

When I took Sadie out this morning, it was COLD. The temp is somewhere in high teens or low twenties, but the wind chill....brrrrr! It's in the single digits. I could handle winter if we didn't have the wind chill. There's something about that frigid Canadian air that cuts through every item of clothing you're wearing and reduces you to a shivering human popsicle. You don't want to move too much because that lets in little vents of cold air, but yet you can't hold still because that makes you colder. So you hug your arms to yourself, try to still your chattering teeth and shivers, and do a little "I'm cold dance" to try to keep your body warm (through physical movement). You seek shelter as fast as possible. This morning I was ducking behind a tree wishing she would finish her business so we could go inside. She's a curious puppy and likes to sniff EVERYTHING, but this morning she did her stuff and then started toward the door at a fast sprint. lol

Yesterday was quite comical. Our carpool driver decided we needed to leave an hour early. That's fine, but I would prefer a phone call versus an email because I didn't see her email until 4 minutes before she wanted to leave. I had to instantly drop everything I was working on and leave the office to rush to the meeting place. Hopefully next time she'll call first. ;) When we arrived back in town, after taking an extra 30 minutes to drive home due to the road conditions, I saw my truck was COVERED in ice. The parking lot was also a sheet of ice, so I "surfed" my way over to the truck door, started it and left it in neutral with the defroster on high, grabbed my scraper and went to work. It was so funny. Because I was standing on a sheet of ice, every time I pushed the scraper against the windows to scrape off the ice, I would slide back and only an inch of ice would come off - if even that much. So I had to "surf" in place while scraping otherwise I'd have made no progress. I couldn't stop laughing. Of course, the fact that it was still raining (freezing rain) didn't help and I was quickly getting very very wet....and cold. I finally cleared enough off of the windows to allow for driving visibility and slipped and slid my way home. Once I got home, I finished scraping the windows before going inside. I don't want this stuff refreezing on my windows, forcing me to work even harder the next day. It's a policy of mine and since I have a carport, I don't have to worry about new accumulation. Woohoo! I've decided carports are wonderful things. ;)