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Old 02-12-2014, 08:33 PM   #23591
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc View Post
Finally got home - it took 5 1/2 hours to drive home [normal drive time = 20 minutes] - our snow started at noon - so all the schools closed, all the businesses/malls/etc. closed .... and thousands of frightened drivers hit the roads simultaneously - with snow/sleet/fog plus high winds. When it takes you 30 minutes or more to make a left turn onto a highway you begin to expect the worst. I honestly thought I was going to spend the next 2 days stranded on route 54 - along with thousands of other upset drivers - traffic was progressing at less than a crawl - at the stop lights we all jumped out and cracked the ice off of our windshield wipers - good Samaritans stopped to check abandoned cars to see if anyone needed rescuing ... my windshield cracked ... my rear window wiper broke off from the weight of the snow ... I was literally shaking with chest pain when I finally pulled into my neighborhood and slid up to my curb.
Early retirement looks real good tonight ... I'm too old for this level of stress ... after 2 Guinness I'm still tense ...
I'm glad to hear you made it. I thought about you tonight when the local news reporters were saying that many in North Carolina were stranded on the roads. Actually, what was said is that "people ignored warnings by police to stay off the roads" and were stranded as a result. The way they said it got under my skin. What of all those people who, in today's economy, don't dare miss a day of work without a very good excuse who were stranded because their bosses didn't let them off early so they could get home safely? I'm sure there were very few people on the roads this afternoon by choice.
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