Have I Told You.....

How much I fucking HATE snow?  Why is it that my mother decided to move to Ohio and not Arizona when we were packing up and getting the hell out of the town that had basically folded up into nothing?  Stupid, stupid woman.....  Here's my car during the snowstorm on Friday.  We actually got let out of work an hour early because of this:

 

Yeah, I started shoveling after I realized the Sebring wasn't going to make it up the driveway.  Being as it sits 3 inches off the ground, it's not real snow-friendly....  I live on an emergency route through the neighborhood, so in front of my house is one of the first residential places to get plowed, but that created a host of other problems.  Mainly all the shit that they plowed into the end of the driveway.  I'm not opposed to shoveling (it was my excuse for not going to the gym Friday and Saturday), but DAMN that shit was heavy!  You know, the kind of snow that all the kids want, snowman snow.  Unfortunately when it got dark and the temperature dropped, it turned to ice and was super hard to get shoveled, especially the big chunks from the plow.  I got stuck every time I left the house last weekend.  Central Ohio rarely sees snow of this magnitude.  12" at my house by midday on Saturday.  WTF?  I thought we got away from all this when we left PA.

I get up this morning and go to wake up the big kids.  G tells me he's gotten 12 text messages saying school is canceled.  I say whatever.  I had just been up at 4am and there wasn't half an inch of new snow.  I knew it hadn't snowed that much in two hours.  He turns on the tv and shows me that school is indeed closed.  WTF?  I spent all evening cleaning last night and now it'll be undone by kids being home all day.  

Turns out, even with that little amount of snow, the roads were horrible this morning.  Plus, we're supposed to get an additional 6-8 inches of snow today.  WTF?  It's that dusty blowing shit this time.  Good for skiing, not so much for driving.  Hopefully I can go home early again today.  I really wanted to lay in bed like the rest of the household, but unless it's a Level 3 snow emergency, we have to come in to work.

How about that shit over further toward the east coast?  Any of you guys in all that?  2 feet of snow??  That reminds me of being a kid and once having to burrow what amounted to a tunnel from our front door out to the mailbox.  There was 3+ feet of snow.  I was probably 7.  That was cool back then, now, not so much!  You're all going to get hit hard again today, that shit's no good.

So, the kids are off today, probably tomorrow, then have Friday and Monday off because of President's Day and some other stupid teacher in-service day.  I may strangle one of them before it's all over with.  Thank god I leave for vacation next Thursday.  I don't care that it's not super hot and nice in Vegas right now, anything's better than this.....