‘oh my god! it’s the ice storm of ‘07!’

that’s what everyone’s saying. the news. the residents. the children. people i work with. the animals.

it’s crazy outside, and you don’t want to be there when the icestorm of ‘07 comes crashing down upon our sun-ripened heads.

nonense. absolute ‘effing nonsense.

yesterday, i spent my day at home because on sunday, there was talk of an ‘icestorm’ that was coming down from northern texas. yes, the temperature was going to get to freezing at night. yes, the rain would come and sheet the roads and our cars with an impenetrable shield of rock-solid ice. no, there were not enough salt/sand trucks to handle this massive debacle that the city was caught unawares by.

so, like good citizens, we went to the grocery store and stocked up on a few essentials, such as soup, water, frozen pizza and some generic triscuits. and we waited.

we fell asleep, and sure enough, around 3 or 4 in the morning, we heard the pattering of rain. i got the e-mail from work telling me that it would be alright to stay at home because everything was shutting down. upon waking, i take a look outside, and it’s certainly wet…but definitely not anything like the frozen mess that my expectations had been set for.

the northerner in me starts cracking up. this is really crazy. how the hell can you shut down the entire city because of a little rain and sleet? but, again, being a good citizen who has only been here for four months, i decide that i should probably not tempt fate and just stay at home. afterall, that’s what the e-mail said for us to do.

i stay home, and the day ends up being a complete wash. the ‘icestorm’ doesn’t really happen. it just continues to drizzle a little bit.

as the day turns into the evening, the news starts to talk about how it’s really, REALLY coming this time. tonight. overnight for sure. it’s going to freeze our nuts off. it’s going to suck the soul directly from your body because it’ll be so cold and stormy. it’s going to huff and puff and blow the roof right off of your tiny little abode.

so i wake up this morning…and yes…there is now some frozen material on the ground and on my car. and it’s sleeting a little. but again, i’m dissappointed. i check my e-mail, and there’s nothing there indicating that we should stay home. i call a couple of my co-worker friends to find out what they’re doing, and they tell me they are staying in.

but then there’s me. i just can’t take it. this is absolutely silly. so i suit up, get the car warmed up, and go ahead and make my way into work like a good, loyal worker braving a storm should…

…only to find that i’m the only schmuck here. seriously. not even the building staff is here. and the office is cold.

i should have known when i started driving in and pretty much all of the businesses that i was passing were closed. and there were no cars on the road.

i don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

so i guess my years in cincinnati have paid off a little. i definitely had no trouble getting in here…but the people that i did see on the road didn’t seem to have much of a clue as to how to plow through. however, it’s not doing me much good seeing that i’m the only one here

guess i’m going to go home.

.a.out.

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