$#%%$ Snow! @$#%#% Weather Forcasters! I hate winter....

[TZ]

What fucking day I am having here in the DC area. Last night all the forcasters are saying a dusting to an inch or two of snow starting AFTER morning rush and, Oh yeah, road temps are warm--it won't be a problem. WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! It started snowing around 6;30 or so this morning and its COLD--WAAY below freezing. So guess what? THe little bit of snow immediately FROZE to all the overpasses and btw- the roads were totally UNTREATED. Accidents galore. My 4 mile commute took me almost an HOUR. And then while sitting in traffic my battery light went on in my car. Aye carumba! Fortunately it got me in okay and I ran in and found a co-worker to tell them I couldn't stay cause I just knew if my car sat in the cold all day it wouldn't start. So I drove back over less crowed but still very icy roads and just dropped my car off at a gas station near my house. I trust them but they don't have a wait area so I walked a half a mile home in the snow and cold (by computer weatherbug says its 23 degree F right now). Cold wet and cranky.
Oh and no way am I going back out on the roads. In the 7 years I have lived here I have NEVER seen the traffic around my house this bad...:argh:

[Flatline]

1. You need to get away............

Come to Michigan bwahahahahaha..........=)


We just look out our window here for weather reports it changes almost every hour or so ...lol

[1gobluedem]

5. Ah yes..

Where you can begin the day with the heat on and end it blasting the A/C. Or vice versa.

But I love it here and wouldn't live anywhere else. And we do know how to cope with snow on the roads.

[Flatline]

9. Well some do anyway hahaha n/t

[TZ]

2. On top of everything else its my ALTERNATOR

thats busted. They don't know about my battery yet. Probably looking at a $500 car bill..YAGGHHH!!!:banghead:

[Deep13]

4. Really? $500 for an alternator?

wow.

[TZ]

6. Well not just for the alternator

280 for the alternator and 130 in labor NOT including the battery, which I figure will probably need to be replaced. Last time I had a car with a bad alternator the battery went too. $411 is the current estimate. Seems about right, but it could be a little high. I can't really shop around at the moment either....:banghead:

[DS1]

3. I don't listen to or watch them

Haven't in years.

Fire up weather.com, punch in your zip, open the Doppler radar zoom out a bit and you have everything you need to know about your upcoming weather.

[huskerlaw]

7. Come visit me!

Current temp: 58 degrees (at 7:21 am)
Today's high: Mid-70s. (yesterday it was almost 90)

Though it may still take you an hour to go 4 miles here... :evilgrin:

I very un-fondly recall the days of the snowstorm. I grew up in Nebraska, so I'm fully aware of the nastiness.

Sorry you had such a craptacular morning!

:hug:

[Tyler Durden]

8. At least all the bugs have the decency to die off.

One nice thing about Winter.