Good timing.
Jan. 19th, 2002 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivka7:00 am: The alarm rings, and Ben goes off to check the weather. "Still clear outside. You can see the storm coming on the radar, yeah, but Baltimore and Washington are clear. We can probably sleep for a couple more hours."
8:15: "Ben, I can't sleep. I'm worried about the snow. I think I should probably head out."
8:30: A few scattered flakes start to fall from the sky as we walk across the docks to my car.
8:40: Substantial flurries as I drive through downtown, but nothing sticks to the roads.
9:05: As I reach my apartment complex, the snow has started sticking in a major way. It's coming down in that determined "I could do this all day" pattern. Back on the boat, the reset alarm is probably just going off. Good thing I didn't wait for it.
(People who live in Minnesota can stop sneering at me now. I can drive on snow, yes. I even have snow tires. It's the rest of the Marylanders that make driving in snow inadvisable.)
8:15: "Ben, I can't sleep. I'm worried about the snow. I think I should probably head out."
8:30: A few scattered flakes start to fall from the sky as we walk across the docks to my car.
8:40: Substantial flurries as I drive through downtown, but nothing sticks to the roads.
9:05: As I reach my apartment complex, the snow has started sticking in a major way. It's coming down in that determined "I could do this all day" pattern. Back on the boat, the reset alarm is probably just going off. Good thing I didn't wait for it.
(People who live in Minnesota can stop sneering at me now. I can drive on snow, yes. I even have snow tires. It's the rest of the Marylanders that make driving in snow inadvisable.)
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Date: 2002-01-19 06:35 am (UTC)My OSO who lives in Maryland feels the same way about other Marylanders driving on snow. Of course I won't sneer. It is very sensible to stay off the roads when you can't trust the people around you to drive sensibly.
(I do sneer at Minnesotans who forget how to drive on snow, mind, which about half of the people around here seem to forget every winter - and some of them forget between storms. But that's different.)