I knew it was going to be bad when the predicted snowfall keep creeping up all day yesterday. Getting home took me twice as long as usual yesterday, and considerably longer than that for Spouse.
My suspicions were confirmed this morning, when the traffic report included an incident in which a DoT salt truck was overturned.
Accordingly, I sent a message to my team that started out “Good morning! I expect to be working remotely today…”
So far, replies have included the following:
6:35 AM “it snowed, didn’t it?—and more to come today…It took me over 3 hours to get home last night and I just can’t see wasting all that time again today.”
6:51 AM “the snow is deeper than my car’s ground clearance”
7:13 AM “the first news report I saw this morning was on location at the intersection outside my apartment complex”
8:20 AM “There’s a foot of snow on my hot tub”
8:32 AM IU Bloomington has closed campus because of weather, or as they put it “hazardous travel conditions”. Last time that happened, I was in graduate school. I remember it well, as I was working overnight at the radio station that day.