UGH~ Winter

WHOA! What a ride to work yesterday! Buckle up, Broccoli! It's going to be a bumpy ride! The half hour drive took me the better part of an hour. The highway I live on was not bad -- but the one I turn on to go the last 26 miles to work was Hellacious! At first, it was just a little slick. But then all H broke loose. Mind you that I am going to work before 5 am, and it's still dark. It started snowing to beat anything, and I couldn't see two feet in front of the car. I had no idea if I was even still on the road. I just knew that there were no trees passing too close to me, so I was probably still all good. I saw no road signs -- I had no time to even look up to see them. It's a state highway, but, up here, there are not many markers to tell you where you are.

Eventually I did meet another car coming in the other direction. Luckily that vehicle was only going about 20 mph as well, because we were going head-on into each other. Apparently this person deals with early morning commutes in the winter as much as I did, because he/she moved over a bit at a time until we could pass safely. About five miles down the road, it had snowed enough that I could actually see where other cars had traveled. I took this tracks, ruts in the snow, really, and hoped that the ones I was following didn't belong to a car that had ended up in the ditch at some point. Once you get into someone else's ruts, it's hard to get out once you realize that they have gone where no '93 Cutlas should ever travel.

By the time I got close to the town where I actually work, the roads weren't too terrible and I was able to almost drive like a real person. It's only October! I am SO not looking forward to this commute through the woods for the next 8 months! I hope we get at least a little warmer weather before all H breaks loose for good. I'd take 45 degrees, really I would -- for a few weeks. It just all came too quick and too early!