So the first big, huge snowstorm is upon us, and it's got everyone in a tizzy. There was about an inch of the powdery white on the ground when Ollie and I went out this morning, and the snowfall has not stopped. The drive to work was slow, though not too perilous. A good number of people chose to not drive in at all, and I envy them. There was about two inches of snow in the office parking lot, which as of 9 hadn't been plowed yet, and I'll have to wipe another four inches or so off the car when I'm ready to leave today. "They" say that we may get as much as 12 inches out of this storm.
Things to do to prepare for the official snow:
1. Move shovel from balcony to backseat of car.
2. Move window scraper from backseat to under driver's seat in the front.
3. Double-check windshield cleaning fluid.
4. Spread out towels at each door into the apartment: from balcony into bedroom for Oliver's snow drops, and at front door for our wet and dripping shoes.
Some of these things, you may say, should have been done before the first snowflake fell, but I simply do not work that way. I prefer to not do those things until I'm absolutely sure that it will snow this winter, and for that kind of assurance, I had to wait until it actually did start to snow.
5 comments:
Wow, way to be prepared, must be all the California snow.
You had to see that coming....
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That's nothing! We had a tenth of an inch of rain today!
You know that you are in California when the lead story is light rain. The reporters were out on remote to prove that it was raining and to interview people on the street about how they felt about this biblical amount of rainfall.
Even thought I jest, Californians don't know how to drive in the rain. They think that ABS and AWD will help their $50K BMW from getting in an accident. What they don't understand is that ABS and AWD just help you hit the car in front of you "square on" instead of at an angle.
What's a "window scraper"?
I only knew what an ice/window scraper was before I moved out here because of time spent in Tahoe, but it's a plastic blade-type thing with a handle that scrapes ice off a windshield. And to let you know, the only thing better than BMW drivers freaked out by rain is those BMW drivers stuck on the side of the road because they can't get up a hill in the snow.
or those BMW drivers stuck on the side of the road on a hill in the snow with no GAS !
Don't you miss shoveling all that aweful sunshine in CA and AZ?! Surely they need dentists and editors in either of those places?! HMMM?!
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