I know we're backward in Oregon, but this photo proves that we're WAY behind the Euro-Trash in our concept of Global Warming.Click on the photo to see the full-size version, then look carefully under the SUV. See the shine? That, my friends, is 12 hours of freezing rain. On top of it (other than under the cars) is a half-inch of soft, SLICK powdery snow.
Oregon State University (the 'cottage industry' of my home town) was shut down until 11am today. At 5pm they closed it again in anticipation of more-of-the-same. Full pay to faculty and staff for the snow-day hours, so you know it had to be serious.
(The temperature at 5:15 was 36 degrees, but dropping fast.)
How slick was it?
It was so slick that SWMBO stepped out her front door at 7am this morning, slipped on her front step, and fell hard enough to hurt her back and put a big ol' goose-egg on her head. Guess who didn't go to work at all today.
It was difficult to put in a full day's work for a day's pay. I guess when the Global Warming thingie hits Oregon (my guess: sometime in mid-August) we'll all be working to make up the time lost.
After taking Martin Luther King day off, and half a snow day, we have three days to do five day's work.
I hate 3-day weekends!
But I like winter.
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