Boy, what a day this was!
They had called for snow starting last night, and reaching 4 to 6 inches. I had gotten up ½ hour earlier, to have extra time to ride my bicycle to work (it's only 5 km - 3 mi.) When I woke up, nothing of the sort. So I go back to bed for another half hour. Got up, ate, rode my bike to work on dry pavement.
By the time I was pulling out my bus from the garage, it was raining, and the roads were
covered with ice. Even just driving slowly, not touching the breaks, the back of the bus would sometimes swing to the right, because of the inclination of the road! I had to constantly put in in neutral to brake.
There was an accident on one road, where I was headed. The connecting street which normally takes me 5 or 6 minutes to cover from one end to the other took me one hour and 45 minutes. People kept coming into the bus to get out of the rain, only to get out again to start walking (as best as they could, on the ice), because we were barely moving. At one point, I had to straddle lanes, to make sure to have enough room, because the rear end kept moving right if I wasn't careful. By straddling, I had more room, and prevented anyone passing me on either side, so as to avoid any dangerous situation afterwards. I ended up clocking 2 hours and ten minutes of overtime, because of the delays.
I then went to take a nap. By then, it was more of a drizzle and frozen rain. When I got up an hour and 15 min. later, it was snowing heavily, with already a few inches of accumulation on the ground. My afternoon shift went well, with nary any delays.
I rode my bike home in a hurry, to catch the post office before it closed, as there were supposed to be two packages waiting for me there. One anti-snoring device, and one monitor for my computer. I made it just mere minutes before they closed. But neither package was there, because no mail moved today due to the storm... I have to wait until tomorrow evening...
Got home, fixed my shovel (it was cracked, and I repaired it with plumber's foil and some rivets... it worked) and shovelled my entrance. I also spent 30 to 40 minutes scraping the ice off my truck's windows. It might have taken me a little less time, had I realized sooner that one of my scrapers has better teeth than the other...
Coming in, I checked for tomorrow's comic, which was posted. Yay! First post on the new thread!
And now, it's already time for bed...