More traffic Woes!

What a day!  I left the house at 9:00 this morning to sub for a ten o’clock class.  On a Saturday morning, it should only take me 20 minutes to get to work.  As I got on the expressway, there was a multiple car accident in the clearing stages.  The middle lane was open, so I very carefully made my way through, figuring it must be slippery and not wanting to hit all the people milling around.  As I got past that, I looked up and saw a wall of traffic.  The expressway had been shut down due to black ice -  and I was going nowhere.  It took me 40 minutes to go one exit and then get to a surface street that was fairly open. It ended up taking me 1 hour and 15 minutes to get to work.  My boss, Chris had to start my class – fortunately, hers started at 10:30. I have never ever been late to work before – not even when I drove in that big snow storm that we cancelled classes for!  UGH!

I’m not one to whine about Michigan winters – I love where I live and wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.  But – HOLY COW!  It has snowed every other day here this winter!  YIKES!  I’m not sure Spring will ever come!  Can it really be March?

Floods, Ice, Snow!

What a day! We started with a flood. Several hours later, around the time the water started receding, the sleet started. Now we have an inch of snow and it is continuing to come down hard. ARGH!!!!!!

This isn’t the greatest picture – but I think you can certainly see a difference between this morning and tonight!

EDIT: By my measurements, we have about 3 inches. How did I measure? I shoveled. TWICE!