Morning Ramblings

"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion) 01/31/2019 at 07:36 • Filed to: None

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This has been quite a winter in terms of school delays and cancellations. Some years the timing just doesn’t line up, where storms come and go without messing up school. Not this year. And now this morning, they delayed school 2 hours because of the cold. Mind you, it’s -6F but it’s been that cold for school mornings already but there was no [mr regular voice] Polar Vortex battering the middle part of the country, making everything seem worse. It’s really not that bad here.

But anyway, my 4-year-old is sick so I have to be home anyway. Naturally, my 6-year-old is whining constantly because he wants to stay home too. I am responding to some work email and trying to ignore his whining because it’s completely made-up. Of course the “sick” kid is playing nicely by herself.

funky lens distortion on the car at this angle - look at the wheels...

I was outside last night for a ski jumping meet from 4:30 to 8:00 and it was very cold. Then we had a very long bus ride home because the roads were snow-covered the whole way with wind blowing snow everywhere. I will give our bus driver massive credit, however, for passing a car on a 2-lane road with a 55 limit. The car was going really, really slowly and ahead of us a plow truck and an 18-wheeler both passed it, blowing snow over snow-packed roads be damned.

You better believe I did some donuts at the end of my road when I got home. 2" of light snow on top of packed snow/ice, it was amazing. I also executed a delightful Scandinavian Flick into my road. I love winter! 

Ok back to reality.

Jayvincent > functionoverfashion 01/31/2019 at 07:53

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Oval wheels for better ground clearance, You are Winning at Winter !

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > functionoverfashion 01/31/2019 at 08:16

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No area of permanent human habitation should include snow...

shop-teacher > functionoverfashion 01/31/2019 at 09:02

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They definitely don’t always get the close/don’t close thing right. It’s still -22 here, so we’re closed and we should be.

But we were also closed Monday because 4-5" of snow fell overnight. WTF? If you can’t drive in 4" of snow, move to Florida. Our neighbors rent their basement to a medical student, who is from Florida. She managed to make it to class and back in her RWD Lexus on all seasons! Monday should've been delayed start, to give us time to clear our driveways and deal with traffic.

functionoverfashion > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 01/31/2019 at 13:33

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