All week long we've been hearing that Thurday night would be the worst snow of the year. Freezing rain, the 7" of snow, yada yada yada.
During practice last night I was dreading what I would find when I walked out of the rink at 9pm. I pictured having to dig my jeep out, sliding home, etc.
Dan and I worked our butts off all week at the shop, pushing lunches, catering, etc, to bring in extra money since we were convinced that no one would come in on Friday.

I knew, during practice, that something was happening outside when we were skating. When it gets ready to snow, or the temp drops a lot, I have these metal bits in the front of my mouth (results of a long ago car accident) that just hurt. I braced myself for natures fury, and walked outside to find...
nothing of note.
I mean, there was some freezing rain happening, so I figured the storm was running an hour behind.

Ran to the store for important stuff like shampoo and deodorent, and went home.

Dan and I set our alarm clocks early, so we could get our butts to the shop for the bravwe souls that would want their coffee early. We kind of looked foraward to a day of board games, hanging out with a few friends and watching the snow drift over our jeep through the big picture window. The plan was that, as we've done in snowstorms past, we would hang out for a while, if no one came in and the storm didn't break by 1 or so, we'd close up and go home.

So we wake up early, open the door to find... the snow didn't even cover the grass. Sure, there was some ice, but it was mostly turning to slush. Poor news reporters on the morning news, who had been all set to cover this big snow storm were like,

"Well Bob, as you can see there is some slush on the ground, it's about an inch or two high, which can be hazardous to those early morning drivers".

And the newspapers front page had the hour by hour breakdown of how the storm would work, starting last night, going through to this afternoon.

Yea, didn't happen. At all. We got some fluries, and freezing rain.

Still enough to make the metal in my mouth hurt, and my bad shoulder ache (the result of a seperated ac thingie during a roller derby bout, that I have not been able to afford to go under the knife for yet. stoopid lack of health insurance)

Blech.I was kind of looking forward to a relaxing snow day today. Instead, we've been crazy busy because of all the people that already planned on not going to work today!