Snow Day
I’m stuck.
I’m stuck at home, watching the snow gracefully plummet from the sky and build up outside my window. I’m stuck at home unable to attend my class today. It’s about blogging, so as you can probably imagine, I wanted to be there.
I’m stuck at home, alone (for now), humming “I just don’t know what to do with myself. Just don’t know what to do with myself.” (The White Stripes version).
The buses that normally run by my house were getting stuck on the hill, so they were rerouted to a street at least 8 blocks away. As my class is in the afternoon (right now, actually), the buses are every half hour so that increases the risk. I also was not keen on either walking 8 blocks in the snow, or trying to see if I could catch another bus to take me that direction. A connection? Unlikely. What about getting home? Who knows what could happen. There was no snow yesterday, but because of high winds it took me over 2 hours to get home. What should have been a 5-minutes-or-less ride on a stretch of Fraser Hwy took 30 minutes(!!!) because of a power outage at 148 St. Four-way stops only work efficiently with small amounts of traffic. It was after 5:00 and that spot is normally hectic that time of night. There was a police car there with flashing lights. I’d seen more of those yesterday than any day, ever as there were incidents everywhere. Emergency showed up Monday evening at Science World, yesterday downtown and (police only) at Surrey Central, plus dotted here and there. Delays on the skytrain, delays downtown, delays in Surrey topped off by a lost glove, which fortunately showed up at lost & found today. Not that I can retrieve it, because I’m stuck. It’s just going to have to live there until Monday morning. Poor thing. I hope no one stepped on it.
The wind orchestrated everything yesterday. Banners on Granville Street and flags on Granville Island shuddered nonstop, making an intense noise. Trees waved back and forth like ocean-dwelling plants. I feared the power would go out again last night and lit candles. (Any excuse to light candles!)
Boyfriend just called again. Half an hour since he left work and he’s still in Abbotsford. Hwy 1 and Fraser Hwy AND 8th Avenue are hopeless. Poor man should have stayed home when he wasn’t feeling well and 2 inches of snow appeared on the ground. It’s at least 5 inches now. He said out there it’s around 6. The Weather Network’s warning said 5 to 10 cm expected for out here. (The forecast had originally said “trace” amounts of snow. Yeah, right!) 10cm is a little under 4 inches, so let’s try something more like 15. It’s still coming down. “It shows no signs of stopping!” I just want him to get home safely, have a cup of hot tea or hot chocolate and get some rest!
