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So last Firday proved to be interesting indeed...
When we awoke, there was still power and cable.
Shrewsbury schools were cancelled, so Colleen didn't have to go in. Marcus was supposed to spend the day with Nana and Papa, but the weather threw those plans in the bin.
I still had to go in.
I was able to clear my car with just a good squeegee. Roads, at the time, didn't seem too bad, at least with getting out of the driveway.
Once I left the driveway, though, a different story could be told.
I kept things slow, and I even left the house before 745am, giving myself plenty of time.
The stretch of Lincoln Street between the Burncoat/Lincoln fork and the I290E onramp was a gauntlet of downed limbs, a downed tree or two, and a small lake.
Once on 290, I still kept it slow. I took the time to marvel at what I called "eerily beautiful" with the ice hanging off of perilously-low dangling branches and rock faces.
Made it to Marlboro with plenty of time to spare, so I picked up drinks and food at Hannaford's.
However, the day was murder, as we were down to (at most) half staff in the MABO office... plenty of calls in queue for several outages across NE and the upper/central midwest... didn't take an official lunch break, but I managed to scarf down a couple of slices of pizza.
By the end of the day, I was not only fried, but served, eaten, digested, pooped and well on the way to being flushed.
Ssturday also proved to be fun.
Went out to Leicester to do the weekly WalMart run at the Duper WM out there. We had seen lights in other businesses, but these guys were shut. Lack of power, they said, though we could see lights through the window.
Drove to the Oxford WM (not a super)... same deal.
We were also looking for a Dunkin Donuts that was either open and/or not packed to the gills. The first one we stopped at that looked decent was on the Auburn/Oxford line. (We had gone to two others before, but they were packed packed packed.) The only thing I could get there was a latte for C. They were absolutely Mother Hubbard when it came to food.
Stopped at another on Rt 20 in Shrewsbury... had food. People had noshes on the way to WM in Northboro.
Through Leicester, it was just amazing seeing the duality of nature -- both destructive yet beautiful, with downed branches and trees, and yet the sun glistening through the ice still clinging to branches that hadn't yet succumbed to gravity. It was absolutely amazing.
Wish I had a camera.
When we awoke, there was still power and cable.
Shrewsbury schools were cancelled, so Colleen didn't have to go in. Marcus was supposed to spend the day with Nana and Papa, but the weather threw those plans in the bin.
I still had to go in.
I was able to clear my car with just a good squeegee. Roads, at the time, didn't seem too bad, at least with getting out of the driveway.
Once I left the driveway, though, a different story could be told.
I kept things slow, and I even left the house before 745am, giving myself plenty of time.
The stretch of Lincoln Street between the Burncoat/Lincoln fork and the I290E onramp was a gauntlet of downed limbs, a downed tree or two, and a small lake.
Once on 290, I still kept it slow. I took the time to marvel at what I called "eerily beautiful" with the ice hanging off of perilously-low dangling branches and rock faces.
Made it to Marlboro with plenty of time to spare, so I picked up drinks and food at Hannaford's.
However, the day was murder, as we were down to (at most) half staff in the MABO office... plenty of calls in queue for several outages across NE and the upper/central midwest... didn't take an official lunch break, but I managed to scarf down a couple of slices of pizza.
By the end of the day, I was not only fried, but served, eaten, digested, pooped and well on the way to being flushed.
Ssturday also proved to be fun.
Went out to Leicester to do the weekly WalMart run at the Duper WM out there. We had seen lights in other businesses, but these guys were shut. Lack of power, they said, though we could see lights through the window.
Drove to the Oxford WM (not a super)... same deal.
We were also looking for a Dunkin Donuts that was either open and/or not packed to the gills. The first one we stopped at that looked decent was on the Auburn/Oxford line. (We had gone to two others before, but they were packed packed packed.) The only thing I could get there was a latte for C. They were absolutely Mother Hubbard when it came to food.
Stopped at another on Rt 20 in Shrewsbury... had food. People had noshes on the way to WM in Northboro.
Through Leicester, it was just amazing seeing the duality of nature -- both destructive yet beautiful, with downed branches and trees, and yet the sun glistening through the ice still clinging to branches that hadn't yet succumbed to gravity. It was absolutely amazing.
Wish I had a camera.