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terryclothI actually had a pretty productive day at work, but I left early because I didn't want to try driving on the snow in the dark/I was lazy and there was no one else there to see what time I left.
I mean, no one -- out of 25 developers, I think I saw 3 in.
Anyway, I tried to stop at Crossroads on the way home from work -- it's not literally on the way, but it's only a block or so out of the way, barring traffic, and there was no traffic -- but it was closed. Foo. I guess I'll have to wait for the weekend to buy more minis.
Apparently, Bellevue has no snow plows. The snow on the drive home was hard packed into an icelike substance. The lines on the roads were completely obscured, which was frustrating since without heavy traffic, the streetlights were all in the mode where you need to be in the right place to ever get a light. There were the customary 'busses stranded askew at the sides of roads', but these looked deliberately grounded rather than driven into ditches. There were no ditches to drive them into, at any rate.
There were a couple scary moments -- one where I was braking as hard as I could without skidding just to *not speed up* going down a hill, and someone looked like they might try to turn in front of me without really having enough time to make it unless I slowed down. But they didn't. The second was when at the end of that hill, I stopped at the red light, and saw the grounded busses blocking a lane and a half of the uphill on the far side, which really looked like I might not make it up it -- but somehow I built up enough speed going across the intersection, and had enough traction on the hill, to make it to the top.
Actually, it's a good time to practice snow driving, since the traffic's so light.
I mean, no one -- out of 25 developers, I think I saw 3 in.
Anyway, I tried to stop at Crossroads on the way home from work -- it's not literally on the way, but it's only a block or so out of the way, barring traffic, and there was no traffic -- but it was closed. Foo. I guess I'll have to wait for the weekend to buy more minis.
Apparently, Bellevue has no snow plows. The snow on the drive home was hard packed into an icelike substance. The lines on the roads were completely obscured, which was frustrating since without heavy traffic, the streetlights were all in the mode where you need to be in the right place to ever get a light. There were the customary 'busses stranded askew at the sides of roads', but these looked deliberately grounded rather than driven into ditches. There were no ditches to drive them into, at any rate.
There were a couple scary moments -- one where I was braking as hard as I could without skidding just to *not speed up* going down a hill, and someone looked like they might try to turn in front of me without really having enough time to make it unless I slowed down. But they didn't. The second was when at the end of that hill, I stopped at the red light, and saw the grounded busses blocking a lane and a half of the uphill on the far side, which really looked like I might not make it up it -- but somehow I built up enough speed going across the intersection, and had enough traction on the hill, to make it to the top.
Actually, it's a good time to practice snow driving, since the traffic's so light.
