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It wouldn't be so bad having an occasional winter weather advisory but when your only going a day at the most between them it is getting bad! Monday, I barely made it to work because my lil truck kept getting stuck at the top of our drive due to the lane being covered in ice! Just because my cousin Brian came and dug the snow out doesn't mean he took the ice with him! I got to work though, after 30 minutes of Randy and I taking turns pushing the truck up the final crest of the hill on the drive. The roads were still a bit slick but okay going. After work, I took my time because the roads were still slick and went to my parents house down the road from my house to pick up the kids. And promptly got stuck in their drive! The temps were in the 30 and melted some of the snow and ice and left a snowy muddy mess! Between my parents and I, it took us about 45 minutes of pushing, pulling with my dad's truck, and rocking my lil truck to get it un stuck and pushed up their drive to sit at the top while we ate dinner and then made our way home! Where I promptly parked in my Uncle's drive so I could get to work on Tuesday!
Tuesday, no problems! The weather was nice and the weather folks were only hinting at a possible storm coming our way. After work is when my problems started! My truck wouldn't start! Hubby works across the city in IA down by the airport, my parents outside the town we live in (about a 45 minute drive in good weather), and my cousin who works at Gateway was already up and out to make it to his Band's rehersal! A co worker tried helping me get my truck started (single dad and had already left his girls home for the day by theirselves due to late school start-ages 15 and 8). We ruled out alternator thank Gods! But it could have been the battery, the starter, or a cable/connector of sorts. Got a hold of my mom and said come get me, called Randy and he said no worries we have had the truck for 12 years and this is the first problem it has given us.
Wensday, got to work an hour late due to fixing my truck! Thank Gods it was only the battery connectors needing replaced! And then all of us in training, on the floor, and in the bays started watching the weather. We were in a Winter Storm Advisory and by the time we left work we were in an offical Blizzard Advisory. Guess who didn't go to work today? :D
Thursday, today, I took one look outside and said fuck this shit! I don't care if I could get my truck up the drive, I am not risking my life to go to work when every weather person on all four channels, state patrols in SD, IA, and NE were saying if you go to work on Thursday be prepared to stay there till Friday afternoon at the latest! And they started closing down interstate and hiways! I called in. Randy made it home last night about an hour and half late because he took his time coming home and this morning he said the same thing. Fuck this shit! I don't care if it is only my 4th day on the job I am not driving in this shit and getting stuck there over night! My mom who only works 15 minutes away in the next town said the same thing. Of couse the kids are home from school today, schools across the three states are closed for the day, the idiotic ones are trying 2 hour late starts and already they are calling parents and putting it out on the news that they decided to close after all!
Across the midwest and midsouthern states, there is snow (blizzard), rain, flooding, and even tornado warnings, watches, and advisories! Yes you read that correctly! Tornadoes! They started out in parts of OK, KS, and MO last night and early this morning the southern part of NE has spotted a few tornadoes!
So since Mother Nature is feeding Ol Man Winter the Viagra, grab yourself some protection folks! We are in for a doozy of a storm system!
