we had flurries on sunday, but this was different. i went to bed last night and the yard was green, i got up this morning to ankle deep snow. several inches had fallen over night. i turned on the porch light this morning and stepped outside to start loading up the car. a perfect blanket of snow lay on the ground with little kitty paw prints leading up to the front door, pepper was waiting for breakfast. i started up the car to let it warm up a bit and melt some of the snow and ice off the windshield.
i pulled out of my drive and headed on down the road, got to the highway (an eight lane highway) and crawled my way into work. my twenty five minute drive took forty minutes, i never made it over fifty miles per hour. the roads had not been salted, it amazes me that we have all this weather forecasting technology and yet odot (ohio department of transportation) always seems to get caught with their pants down every winter. i finally make it to work and the parking lot is slick. my employer is notorious for not clearing the lot and salting it. i gingerly make my way across the parking lot afraid of falling on an already sore knee, and i’m late for work. only two minutes, miraculously enough, but still late. every year we seem to go through this, people forget how to drive on winter roads. it’s been snowy and icy in ohio for centuries, oddly enough it happens around the same time every year, and yet we are never prepared.
it’s been damp and cold out since last thursday, it has either rained or snowed every day for the past 5 days. my knee is stiff and sore. it’s not too bad in the morning when i first get up, tucked under all those warm cozy blankets, in fact if this hadn’t been going on for days at a time, i’d wager my knee would feel fine in the morning. as it is, it’s still a bit sore when i get up in the morning, and as soon as i step out into the cold i really start to feel it in my knee.
winter has arrived.
