Nor-Easter from Heck...
Mar. 14th, 2017 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatWell, the Universe, Mother Nature, MTA, and Mayor De Blasio decided that I should not go to work today. So. I stayed home. To get to work would require walking through freezing rain and snow, standing around waiting for a bus that may or may not come, switching to another bus that may or may not come, and hopefully getting on a train that may or may not get cancelled. And then doing it again on the way home. All above ground service has been suspended on the subway lines. I live in an area with above ground and below ground service, so of course all trains have been suspended in my area.
Thank ghod, my flights were scheduled for Sunday night, and not Monday, or I'd be stuck in Fort Lauderdale at the moment --- not an airport that I ever want to be stuck in. Much prefer being at home.
Feeling grateful at the moment. Came home with a head cold, and happy to have another people free/travel free day to chill and relax, before heading back into work. I need another day to just veg. None of my projects are pressing. And I'm a non-essential employee -- they can live without me. Plus, I haven't had any sick leave in ages. My co-workers stay home all the time during these types of storms. I usually don't -- living in the city, but if they make impossible for me to come in, I stay home. Going to work today would put my personnel safety at risk and no job is worth that.
Personally, I think they overreacted. So far there's just a few inches and pelting rain. But the rain did change to snow again. So..maybe not. It was snow, freezing rain, then snow...not a friendly mix.
Someone on FB posted that March came in like a lamb and out like a velociraptor. I don't know, we're still in the beginning of March -- isn't it the opposite? Seems I missed the big snow storm last week.
I feel like I've jumped from Summer to Winter in a flash. And weirdly Winter has daylight savings time, and Summer didn't. Which my mind is having troubles wrapping itself around.
Thank ghod, my flights were scheduled for Sunday night, and not Monday, or I'd be stuck in Fort Lauderdale at the moment --- not an airport that I ever want to be stuck in. Much prefer being at home.
Feeling grateful at the moment. Came home with a head cold, and happy to have another people free/travel free day to chill and relax, before heading back into work. I need another day to just veg. None of my projects are pressing. And I'm a non-essential employee -- they can live without me. Plus, I haven't had any sick leave in ages. My co-workers stay home all the time during these types of storms. I usually don't -- living in the city, but if they make impossible for me to come in, I stay home. Going to work today would put my personnel safety at risk and no job is worth that.
Personally, I think they overreacted. So far there's just a few inches and pelting rain. But the rain did change to snow again. So..maybe not. It was snow, freezing rain, then snow...not a friendly mix.
Someone on FB posted that March came in like a lamb and out like a velociraptor. I don't know, we're still in the beginning of March -- isn't it the opposite? Seems I missed the big snow storm last week.
I feel like I've jumped from Summer to Winter in a flash. And weirdly Winter has daylight savings time, and Summer didn't. Which my mind is having troubles wrapping itself around.