What a day.
First thing this morning DH left for work and 20 minutes later he was back home. He said he made it about 2 miles and the road was so icy that he didn't feel safe and didn't think he would make it as far as work, so he found a place to turn around. A couple minutes after he walked back in the door, I heard the radio dj talking about an accident blocking the interstate because a semi jack-knifed, and other reports of several cars in ditches.
I kept hoping that I would get a call to say don't come to work. Unfortunately, the call I got said that they decided to close early because of a predicted blizzard on the way, but I was to come at the regular time and work 4.5 hours.
Therefore, I rushed around as per usual getting ready to leave the house -- and that's when for whatever reason DH decided to use the bathroom where I have all my makeup and hair care products, which made him totally in the way and slowed me down.
I finally got out to my car and found it encrusted in ice. It had been fine a couple of hours earlier when I looked out to see how much scraping I would have to do on the windshield. Sometime while I was doing chores and then taking a shower, we obviously had a downpour of freezing rain. I tried without success to get into my car. I came back into the house to ask DH to either help me break into my car or to give me a ride to work.
DH checked his car and, because it was parked on the other side of the house under a big tree, it had been sheltered from the worst of the freezing rain and he could open the doors. I helped him scrape the windshield and windows. He drove me to work right to the front door, for which I was grateful.
We had a lot more people come to the library than I expected, especially because school had been cancelled and the roads were bad everywhere. I think, though, that everyone was so sick of being housebound, and the people who did come in all live here in TinyTown so they took a chance at being able to get away and back within a short window of time.
We closed the library at 5 and it was so lovely to have DH waiting at the door in a nice warm car. It was even
my car! DH had decided that as long as he was stuck home for the day, he might as well de-ice both of our vehicles. Hopefully whatever snow we get tonight will be easily brushed off in the morning.
I suggested several recipes that I could make quickly for supper, but he didn't want to wait for me to cook anything. He is used to eating fast food on the nights that I work. We drove by all of the restaurants in TinyTown (all 4 of them
) but due to the bad weather, the only one still open was McD's. We ate as quickly as possible and got back home just before dark. I am already regretting the fast food (both the choice of food and the eating so quickly) and have taken an alka seltzer.
I've been sitting here answering Emails. I can hear the wind howling around the house. I'm so grateful to have a house, and a furnace that works, and warm clothes, and hot tea.