I really wanted to stay home, play Rock Band 2, eat snacks, re-watch the second season of the Powerpuff Girls and take a nap.
This Winter in Austin has been the most unpredictable in recent memory. Normally, when it’s cold, it stays that way for a much longer stretch than a couple days. Same goes for the weather being gorgeous.
Yesterday, we started out with it being damp, muggy and foggy yet it was a “balmy” 60-70 F (15-20 C). Two hours into work, the cold front rolled in accompanied by freezing rain. Stupidly, I gambled on this change happening after work so I left my coat at home. Wisely, I stuck around work to wait out the rush hour traffic before going home.
Co-workers who weren’t at Apple the last time there was an ice storm asked me what the procedure was. I told them but followed up with the caveat of, don’t count on it if the ice isn’t building up by 9-10 PM. How I wish I was wrong. The situation this morning was only inconvenient, not crippling; it took some effort to get the car ready for travel while the roads I traveled were decent until Parmer Lane.
Still beats living in the Midwest where it would have to be a catastrophe before anything is closed.