Tag: winter

Another Reason

This posts combines two of the things I bitch and moan about the most. Traffic and Winter.

Here’s another reason to freakin’ hate snow. 43 mile drive home from work tonight… 2:15. Two hours and fifteen minutes. Bite me, mother nature.

I Hate snow

The snow showers we were supposed to get yesterday turned into a few inches of wet, heavy, awfulness. The 30% chance of flurries we were supposed to get turned into about three hours of constant snow. A little of it stuck, but not much. That’s good at least.

I hate snow.

Winter Wonderland

I just shoveled the end of the driveway. Pardon me a minute while I die of exhaustion…

…okay, I’m back.

The yard is most definitely a winter wonderland today. I saw three deer playing in the snow in the woods. Of course, they may have been bouncing around because the snow was too deep for them to walk. That would mean they weren’t exactly playing, but possibly struggling for survival. Still, they looked like they were playing.

I’ve seen two of my favorite back yard wilderness birds today. Cardinals and woodpeckers. All we need now is an owl and a red tailed hawk and the day will be a jackpot all around.

Apart from the horrors of the snow removal, of course. I’m going to take a fist full of aspirin now. Talk to you all later.

Repeat

This is probably getting repetitive, but I am so damn sick of winter… and it hasn’t even started yet.

I am not joking in the least when I tell you that the traffic on route 128 North tonight was moving just as slow as it moved during the snow storm last night.

Are you kidding me?

San Diego, here we come!

Another Day of Snow Sucking Up the Place

I took the kids to their Dad’s house this morning so that they could catch their rides to school.  I was a little surprised by the state of some of the roads.  The snow ended yesterday morning, but it still was a little sloppy here and there.  Route 93 North seemed to be much icier than I had expected.

I’m working from home today, so I didn’t have to deal with my long commute.  My wife, however, has to go to a training in Boston today.  She left the house at 6:30am.  She called me at 8:00 and she’d only made it about half way, if that.  As of 8:15 she still wasn’t even remotely close.

Why?

Is this a case of the state dropping the ball on cleaning up the highways, or is it just an example of a phenomenon that occurs each year where most drivers react to the first snowfall of the year by completely forgetting how to drive in the snow.  I would guess that it’s a combination, but frankly the snow fell yesterday and both things should have been cleared up by today.

Hang in there, my love.  Be safe.  I love you!

Screw You, Mother Nature – Continued

Today is March 21, 2013.  The first day or Spring was yesterday.

It is snowing.

Screw you, Mother Nature!

We had snow in the Fall.  We had snow in the Winter.  We have snow in the Spring.  Suddenly the old joke about having two season, Winter and July, doesn’t seem so funny.

I WANT SPRING!

Hooray for Spring

Is everyone enjoying March 19th so far? It’s the last day of winter and Mother Nature is proving it. Snow. Lots of snow. It’s still falling too. Hooray. Tomorrow is the first day of Spring. We are going to celebrate by shoveling.

All and all this has been a mild winter. The first snow storm actually happened in the Fall, so that doesn’t count. We didn’t really have to deal with any snowy weather until February. While the over all season hasn’t been too bad, February and March have sucked.

March 2013, in like a lion and out like a bigger, angrier lion.

Mother Nature Continues to be a Big Fat Jerk

What the hell is this?

Spring officially begins at some point on Wednesday.  The day after tomorrow.  How is Mother Nature (the jerk) honoring this change of season?

By dumping 3-5 freakin’ inches of snow on us overnight tonight?  Oh, screw you!

On an only slightly related note, is there anything lamer than weather.com’s gimmick of naming winter storms?  Come on, you idiots, snow storms are not deserving of names.  They are little piddly things compared to tropical storms.  Get over yourselves.  It’ll be hurricane season soon enough and then you twerps can have your named storms again.

Urgh.

Spring had better get its springy ass here quick.