Weekly Update 46
Kyle and I were both (extra) hard at work this week – actually succeeding in our effort to get to work on the early side! We were also able to score tickets to a basketball game this week, which was very fun. Durham was all in a tizzy because of 3-6″ in snow were predicted for Thursday night, and many schools an businesses announced closings and delays on Thursday evening. I told myself “I’ll believe it when I see it” and keeping myself from getting excited turned out to be the best move – the roads were simply wet on Friday morning, nothing more!
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Thanks for the mention! Being from Chicago, I love it when southern states freak out about an inch of snow. It makes me chuckle.
It’s pretty silly! My university was all over it, sanding and salting the sidewalks as soon as it started snowing, so they did a great job. People worry about the city roads and such, though, since there are so few snowplows.
When I loved in KY and TN, things got cancelled all the time on the threat of snow that never panned out. While I don’t like driving in snow, I kind of like that Colorado keeps on trucking no matter what. Thanks for the mention.
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Threat-of-weather cancellations are so silly! I’m glad my university waited until 5 AM to make the call about school/work that day because it was clear that nothing much had happened and ice wasn’t going to be a problem.
I know what you mean with the warnings. I live in east Raleigh and everyone was freaking out. We got some cold rain by the time it was all said and done. There was no need for even a delay.
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We were outside when it was raining/hailing/snowing pretty thickly (well, as thick as it got) and it was kind of unpleasant but there was no accumulation happening.
My sister and BIL live in Raleigh and my 4 year old nephew was beside himself excited that there would be snow. He had plans to ice skate (my sister informed me they don’t even have skates), poor bugger. Guess he’ll have to visit his auntie in NY some time to get in a little ice skating.
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Oh, poor kid. We should let snow be a surprise for them so they don’t get their hopes up.
I reckon it would be really cool to have snow days where everything gets closed down. Living in Australia there is no chance of that ever happening.
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Snow days were definitely fun when I was in grade school, but now that I have, you know, work to do, having a snow day is more annoying than not. I had 5 meetings/appointments scheduled for Friday that I did not want to miss/put off.
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Sorry for the late response, but thanks for the mention. I’m hoping for some snow here in the NW, but I’m afraid it’s only a dream 🙁
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