Back from Orlando, still can't see the ground

The temperature has gotten to the mid 40s in the daytime, so that should be melting a good amount of snow at a time. I guess it's not melting as fast as I thought it would, because I thought I would be able to see a difference in the 4 days we were gone in Orlando (70s! warm!).

Before leaving:

After returning:

As you can see from my photographic evidence there wasn't much change.


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Too much snow makes people lazy

Sometimes people need a helping hand, and sometimes people need to help themselves. Yesterday after the big snow, we had ZERO secretaries come in to work. So all the important phone calls (the President could be calling, so a phone has to be answered (during daytime) or forwarded (weekends and evening) to a live human at all times when not ) went through to Hubby. That sumbitch was ringing all damn day. But anyway. The reason no secretary and less than half the regular personnel bothered to come to work yesterday: snowed in. Yes of course. They only had two full days to dig themselves out.

Hubby shoveled enough of the driveway to get one car out. That job took all day Saturday, while the snow was still light. The job was so long because of the section that was piled up by the snowplow. So all he had to do was get the driveway, then it was plowed roads from there. The street right behind us is outside of city limits, so they are lucky if a county plow came by. They had one strip plowed while we had the full width of the street plowed. But the poor souls in the streets that connect those two major roads? Totally effed. No plow. Two feet deep of solid snow from their front doors to the road at most 200 yards away. Those people I can understand not being able to make it to work by Monday. Even with a snow eater it would take a week to clear the street. Oh! And those smug bastards who bought snow eaters! I will only privately acknowledge their wise move in buying a snow eater. Even if you use it once in your life, that is money well spent. I will not compliment their wise purchase to their face. I’m not going to give them the satisfaction.
 
So anyway. Back to the sacks of crap who can’t be bothered to shovel their driveways. I don’t believe for a second that every secretary in the building was in the situation that their road wasn’t plowed. Most of these people live in the same town as I do, so they have excellent maintenance services, with snowplows running 24/7. I want to know how many people just decided to park their car on the street the night of the snow and then the next day said “Oops, snowplow totally trapped my car! Guess I can’t get to work!”
 
And why am I ragging on secretaries? We are supposed to have one in the building to answer the phone in the daytime no matter what. The Commander was here ferchrissakes but not one out of eight secretaries? The Commander lives an hour and a half away!
 
So why am I upset about this? It makes me feel like a sucker. The same way people who pay their mortgages are suckers because we could have just defaulted on the loan for too big of a house and still been able to keep living there. Hubby is a sucker because he has the work ethic and sense of responsibility to make sure he can get dug out and mobile as soon as possible so he can make it to work come Monday. We were out driving around on Saturday night and ended up helping some idiot in a 2WD station wagon who was stuck. Because we are the people who carry jumper cables in the car not because it has a shit battery and constantly needs a jump, but so I can help anyone I see who needs a jump. Which is an awful lot of people, it turns out.


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