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[  Mood: Fed Up WIth Life ]
So we got hit with a very big storm yesterday, and the vestiges are still here. We got at least 31 cm of snow. That’s over a foot. The snowplows have not cleared all the snow yet. The city is pushing garbage and recycling off by one day. There is a great deal of wind, causing blowing snow, and dropping the temperature from -14C to – 24C. In imperial, that’s 6.8F dropped to -11.2F thanks to the wind. It is so bad, the cops are asking people to stay off the road.

But guess what? I have to go to work.

Yup, although the buses are canceled and the city is asking the rest of us to stay home, I have to get to work to provide free babysitting. The reality is that there are parents who are going to get up, drive their kids to school and then go home. There are other parents who will not understand that the buses are canceled all day. These are the parents we will be calling at 3:00 pm to find out why they haven’t picked up their children.

You might think that I am bellyaching for no reason, but we’ve already had one of these days this year. The children who showed up were the children who lived far enough away that they needed drives. The children who stayed home all walk to school. Maddening.

And the parking lot will be nuts. It will not have been plowed, so now you will have hundreds (and I mean hundreds) of cars dropping off little Billy or Ethel or Mohammad in a lot designed to park about 40 cars. Last time around, many of these cars got stuck and had to be pushed out. Male teachers had to go out and push cars. I don’t remember that being covered in teacher’s college. And it wasn’t like some of the parents were practicing safe driving or that others had bothered to buy snow tires, even though they live in CANADA!!!

ARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!

I hate days like this.