Surviving Snowmaggedon in New Beginnings

Atlanta had what we southerners would consider a severe snow storm last week. At about 1:00pm of Tuesday of last week, our HR manager told us to go home. If I had just done that I would have been all right. Nope, I had the bright idea to go to Kroger and stock up on bread. Running that errand gave everyone else just enough time to get in their cars and clog every road in the north Atlanta area.

What should have been a 15 to 20 minute trip became a two hour crawl. I could have walked home in half the time. I had it comparatively easy. One fellow in my office had a 9 hour commute. I believe he spent 6 hours in his car and 3 hours walking. Some people spent 24 hours in their cars. My roommate/landlord, Johnny, had a 7 hour commute. One of his old friends who he hadn't seen in years called and asked if she could stay with him. She had been going home into Atlanta when it became obvious she couldn't go any farther. Luckily, as far as she could go just happened to be within walking distance of Johnny's town home, so she had a warm, dry, safe place to stay that evening.

My office sent out an email requesting that everyone stay home the following two days, so I got two snow days as an adult. Of course, I had to log in to the network on my laptop to work from home on Wednesday, and I was able to drive into the office on Thursday because I live so close, so I really didn't get any snow days. I guess that's a part of being an adult. Snow days, summer vacations, and spring break are things of the past.