Snow day whee

[telophase]

OK, not really snow. Ice day, to be more specific. It's lightly rainy and juuust cold enough that bridges are icing over and there's random patches of ice on the roads and therefore all Texas drivers are panicking. They shut the university down at noon - on the last day of classes :D - and sent all us nonessential personnel home with instructions to check the website and/or news tomorrow morning to see if we're open.

I think that we're not shutting so much because of icy weather, but because so many people phoned in and said they didn't want to come in. Heh.

Anyway, I scraped the ice off my car and headed out onto the highway - passing over a bridge that truly was iced up; you could see it on the sidewalk areas - and got on I-30, where I had the strangest and most eerie experience of my life.

Everyone was driving safely. The traffic was light, with plenty of space between cars, and nobody was going over 45 MPH. Nobody was weaving in and out of traffic, tailgating, passing on the right, failing to signal, cutting anyone off, giving anyone else the finger, accelerating madly or braking madly.

I HAVE ENTERED THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

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[the-z.livejournal.com]

Send some of those drivers up this way! :o Everyone's having accidents here today because there's white stuff on the road.

The sky is falling!

[chikkiboo.livejournal.com]

I found you by hitting friendsfriends, in case you were wondering.

I'm on the other end of I-30, and the sleet is just threatening to fall, very lightly, perhaps. I have to make a trip to Rockwall tonight to buy supplies for a photography exhibit - a trip of about 20 miles on a nice, straight interstate, in a truck equipped with 4 wheel drive, which I have about six years' experience driving in conditions of snow, sleet, freezing rain, black ice, and just about every other sort of weather a New York State winter can throw at you. Yet all my coworkers and friends hear me mention my impending journey and go wide-eyed with shock. "NO!! YOU MUSTN'T!!! DEATH SURELY AWAITS THEE!!!!!"

I'm rather amused by it.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yeah, I spent a year living in South Dakota, and after that, Texas winter weather just doesn't seem as intimidating as it used to be, when I was growing up here. :) Mind you, I'm still a bit nervous about the crazies on the road goin "

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Dangit, hit some key and it posted. The rest of the comment"

Mind you, I'm still a bit nervous about the crazies on the road going "WHITE STUFF? IS THAT WHITE STUFF? AHHHHH! PANIC PANIC MUST BRAKE! NO! MUST ACCELERATE! OH NOES THAT GUY 100 YARDS IN FRONT OF ME IS BRAKING MUST SWERVE INTO NEXT LANE!!!"

[kurobahikaru.livejournal.com]

The best part about San Antonio is how everyone seems to forget how to drive in the rain over the summer. So the first time it really RAINS, like it did last week or so (crazy Texas weather), there's a billion and a half accidents. Everyone here is so stupid when they drive. I love it. XDDD

And now it's getting colder here and it's wet and might sleet some later, and I bet everyone's going to freak out and have more accidents again. And I, who will be driving politely and safely as always, will point at them and laugh, for they are dumb and deserve it.

And then I'll get home and the heat will still not be working, and I'll get annoyed again. Le sigh. *eyeroll*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I remember when I lived in San Antonio. I worked with a guy who insisted that drivers were stupid in rainy weather because the proper way to drive in the rain was exactly like you do normally. No amount of pointing out that especially after a long dry spell, the oil on the roads was lifted out by the water and turned them slicker so you had longer braking times did any good.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

There's a word for people like this. "Roadkill."

[rachel-renee.livejournal.com]

that is the twilight zone. If that ever happened here in Houston, I'd start questioning what was in my last meal or how many exhaust fumes i'd inhaled.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

"Everyone was driving safely. The traffic was light, with plenty of space between cars, and nobody was going over 45 MPH. Nobody was weaving in and out of traffic, tailgating, passing on the right, failing to signal, cutting anyone off, giving anyone else the finger, accelerating madly or braking madly."

NO. I REFUSE TO BELIEVE YOU. IT COULDN'T HAPPEN.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

IT'S THE TWILIGHT ZONE, I TELL YOU.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I do believe you, because I saw people driving on my street today, and they were BELOW the speed limit. And leaving space in between each other.

THIS IS NOT TEXAS.

*shivers*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Maybe we're dead.

Or maybe everyone's been replaced with Stepford Wives.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

*pinches*

You feel real!

And Stepford wives don't wear sweats AND a bathrobe, right? Then I'm real, too.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Well, at least we're all sorted out, then.

*eyeballs rest of friendslist suspiciously*

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think some of THEM are a bit PROGRAMMED, wouldn't ya say???