It's a bit late, but winter is here for real. The last two weeks have been insane with dangerous temps and mountains of snow...We have snow emergency levels, which I have found out not every state has. Level 1 means "look out", level 2 means "don't go if you don't have to", and Level 3 means "drive and you might get arrested". One storm that hit last week started right before rush hour. It took me 45 minutes to get out of the parking lot, and another hour to get home. I only live 20 minutes away!! It was horrendous. This week I left early on Tues and had to stay home on Weds because my county was at a level 3. Cool thing is that I get paid because it was a level 3 emergency. That's an awesome bonus, but I felt bad for my teammates at work who live close and had to come bear the burden of so many people being gone. Ashland never sleeps!The snow is about a foot deep outside my apartment, and I had to really struggle with my car to get backed out of my parking space. I have no shovel, and usually the apartment complex takes care of shoveling, but I think they were overworked this week and couldn't do everything in time. Even Honda cancelled 4 shifts in a row, you know it's bad cuz that costs like $5000+ a minute that the line is shut down... An hour south where I'm from we would get the snow, but more freezing rain and ice-which means losing electricity. Up here it's just mountains of snow! That's probably why we have a ski lodge 15 miles north of us...
It's been an environmentally stressful couple of weeks...I hope winter doesn't last longer since we got such a late start!! Here's the snow piled up outside my door the other night...
On a side note, I took this picture with my new phone! I got a Cherry Chocolate phone last month and I love it. Here's a pic of it....
Well, that's all that's going on around here. Later!
