Snow? What Snow?!
This morning I was awakened by a rap on my bedroom door to look outside. Yes, snow everywhere.
My Dad managed to clear most of the snow off my car, and I had a reasonably smooth journey of not being able to see any lines in the road, and a traffic queue on the M60. My journey took an hour rather than the usual 20 minutes.
Right the way through my day in work, I was more worried about how the journey would be during my journey home. There were a few signs of worry, like having to be pushed out of the snow from the car park, and then on the motorway, I couldn’t see the lines in the road, because there were areas that were not cleared or gritted. And then coming off the motorway, in my lane was a gritter clearning the road, which I had to move deftly past. I am unable to park my car in it’s usual place on the drive, as my wheels roll when I try to move the car up a small ramp (more like a step actually).
Tonight they have forecast widespread frost. The roads are treacherous near to where I live: there are places that have not been gritted, and the side roads definitely have not. Because my car is in the situation it is, and because I have to leave quite early on in the morning, if I can’t move the car away, or I’m slipping and sliding on the roads, I won’t be going in to work.
Which is all okay, I have no worries about that, because about 20% of the people I work with and about 50% of the total number of people on the office floor didn’t bother turning up today.
It isn’t worth risking life and limb imho! Apparently the Council did heed the warning and gritted twice on Monday night, but alas – when snow falls that quick, no amount of gritting is going to do the job. Polyhex tried to get in but there were no buses so I had to put up with him all day :p Probably will today too – he may as well stay at home cos I doubt his manager in London has ventured out, and he can work from home too. Btw, he built my bird table for me yesterday and it is now proudly sitting out in the back loaded up with food – figure the birdies will be needing it more than ever as they can’t clear the ice.