Sunday, January 25, 2004

It’s snowing lightly outside. We’re supposed to get anywhere between 6-10” by morning, depends on who’s giving the forecast. That will be followed by sleet and freezing rain tomorrow afternoon. Can’t wait to get out in that!

Actually, if we have 6+ inches on the ground in the morning and the certainty of ice later, I’m pretty sure the government might close. But you never know. So I’m planning on being at work tomorrow - because I don’t want to take the vacation day and I have a lot of work to do, including payroll. I know I want to get paid next week.

I have to say thanks to my parents for the offer to get snowed in with them tonight and Dad’s offer to drive me to work. I appreciate it, but I’m happy to be at home this time. Love you!

UPDATE (8:51pm): It looks like we have 1/2 to 1 inch of snow already. Peeking out the window I saw several cars with the wipers up. What’s funny is that I learned that trick living in New Hampshire - it keeps the wipers clean, it makes it easier to clean off the windshield, reduces the risk of damaging the wipers in the cleanup process.  Although I do have a snowshade that I use to cover the windshield - it’s a simple matter of releasing the suction cup attached the interior of the window and rolling the shade to the other side of the car, dumping the snow to the ground. Voila! Sparkling clean (and dry) windshield. It works with ice too. But I digress - the wipers in the up position in snow…

I did my normal routine back in December when we had our first snowfall and I noticed that a few other cars followed my lead. This time there are a few more that pulled their wipers up.