Snowpocalypse Update

[fenchurch]

rackham and mekle are finally making their way home through the icy mess... they were, quite literally, trapped at work for awhile. Apparently, people were having problems getting out of the parking garage (it's a rather steep hill up to the road, and it was completely iced over) and then the exits from campus were blocked in by spun-out cars and more ice. I'm hoping they were able to pick up missalula, who really was trapped in her building (the parking garage exit there is particularly steep and no one was getting out), since she doesn't live too far away from us. Rackham carries chains in his car, so he should hopefully do okay... if he can avoid all the other drivers out on the road!

At any rate, with the news I've been hearing about the traffic out there, I'm not expecting them home any time soon.

I've made up the guest bed, since I'm guessing Mekle will be staying with us tonight... I don't think he wants to go through another commute home like he had during our last snow/ice storm (when it took him something like five hours to do what is normally a 20 minute drive).

Pizza night ended up being a bit more complicated than normal... trying to find someplace that was still delivering wasn't easy! Pagliacci had quit delivering earlier in the evening... they'd had only one driver who had been able to make it into work and he'd been in an accident while out on a delivery, Jet City Pizza had closed down entirely around 5:00pm, but Garlic Jim's was still delivering... just with a delivery estimate of over one hour. I was very surprised when the guy showed up only 30 minutes later! I gave him a $10 tip (I'd been planning on that, even if he'd taken an hour to get here), which I hope will make up a bit for having to be out and driving tonight.

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[rosiewook.livejournal.com]

Dang. I'd heard it was bad, but hadn't heard it was THAT bad! I cringe for you and give thanks that I'm sitting here in Atlanta. :)

Stay home until it all goes away!