Snowpocalypse! Again!

The storm continues-Campus is still closed- due largely to a lack of plowing, and will be closed again tomorrow. The list of services closed this week goes on and on. And once I started looking at it- I got really ticked off. Sure, it is a hassle for me that Pitt is closed. But the Food Bank? Meals on Wheels can't deliver either. The National Guard as been here since the weekend, and only today have they been coordinating with emergency services and the mayors office to do things like deliver prescriptions and take people to dialysis. Sure, 18 inches is a lot of snow, especially here where we don't often get it. But the suburbs have been cleared since Saturday afternoon.

Really, this is getting old. There were 18 inches of snow on Saturday- we didn't see a snow plow until yesterday! And why did the city up its effort to deal with the snow? Because we are supposed to get 4-8 inches tonight! Matt hasn't been able to get to work- not an ideal use of limited vacation days. I went in for a few hours today, but scurried back home when the snow started. The buses make a very valiant effort to keep the city moving despite a poor recovery effort- but do you know how scary it is to be on a bus when its wheels start spinning?

Of course Matt and I are fine- we aren't any of the thousands of people without power. We've been acting hunkered down, eating high energy food like bread and nuts as if we were starving. But in truth, we've run out of things to shovel and have only made a dent in our Superbowl Party food. On Matt's last grocery store trip, he bought grapefruit. The main problem for us is not being able to drive, and being asked to keep off the roads "so they can get cleared." I hope City Hall has heard enough outrage to get us back to work by Thursday... grumble grumble.