Too much snow! Getting to work late again.

don't get me started. i just had to call a tow truck after i plowed into a snowdrift with a layer of ice underneath. on the way home from work i slid all the way down a hill; thank GOD my car and i are both okay and i only slid into a pile of snow and not a lamppost or another car or a person! it was horrifying sliding and turning and desperately trying to steer and jam on the emergency brake all the while knowing i had no control and had to just pray and wait for those few seconds that felt like an eternity to find out what would happen when we got to the bottom of the hill.

i got home about an hour ago, now surfing AN and youtube to try and calm down and distract myself. i am literally still shaking and feel like i'm going to vomit. i could have died or seriously hurt someone else.

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Do what I did fourteen years ago - move from Minnesota to Arizona. There are some things I miss about MN, but snow & ice isn't one of them.

Do what I did fourteen years ago - move from Minnesota to Arizona. There are some things I miss about MN, but snow & ice isn't one of them.

yeah...I'm from Sicily; I love warm weather and don't think I will ever get used to biting cold and ice storms. Unfortunately my partner has a job with the NSA and he really likes it there, so we're stuck in DC.

Good solution! My husband and I are in the middle of moving process from WI to VA, yes there is still the occasional snow in the DC area, but nothing like what we get in Wisconsin!!

Do what I did fourteen years ago - move from Minnesota to Arizona. There are some things I miss about MN, but snow & ice isn't one of them.

I love the snow...

I live in Oklahoma and when it snows even an inch, the entire city is thrown into disarray. We are supposed to get ice and up to 3 inches tomorrow night, so I can only assume the local Walmart will be sold out of everything and my friends and I will be preparing for Armageddon.

don't get me started. i just had to call a tow truck after i plowed into a snowdrift with a layer of ice underneath. on the way home from work i slid all the way down a hill; thank GOD my car and i are both okay and i only slid into a pile of snow and not a lamppost or another car or a person! it was horrifying sliding and turning and desperately trying to steer and jam on the emergency brake all the while knowing i had no control and had to just pray and wait for those few seconds that felt like an eternity to find out what would happen when we got to the bottom of the hill.

i got home about an hour ago, now surfing AN and youtube to try and calm down and distract myself. i am literally still shaking and feel like i'm going to vomit. i could have died or seriously hurt someone else.

I'm glad you're home safely.

Do what I did fourteen years ago - move from Minnesota to Arizona. There are some things I miss about MN, but snow & ice isn't one of them.

I grew up in Wisconsin, and snow was just part of winter. No big deal. I have to say, though, that I'm beginning to understand why people move to Florida in their old age! Two more years, and I'm moving south!

I love the snow...

Only when I'm looking out of the window and don't have to be in it.

I have zero sympathy for people who choose not to come to work because of snow. I have a 3 hour commute across Wisconsin into Minnesota and have never missed a day of work because of snow or bad weather. I get annoyed when I have to work extra hard to cover for people who couldn't make it in from 6 miles away. I mean this is the upper Midwest, Nobody should be surprised when we get a foot of snow followed by -30 bellow zero. All it takes is proper preparation. Were I a nurse manager I would consider people who decide not to come in because of deep snow to be no shows. However since the nurse managers don't seem to be any better at getting to work in the snow than anyone else I guess they can't do that, but I would.