It is FREEZING outside. Yesterday some big "artic" (as they are calling it) storm blew through. It blew around sleet on and off all day yesterday and today left the city under a sheet of ice. Most of the school districts around here closed early yesterday and Michael started his little treck home at about 3:00 as did many others. It was the perfect night for chile so I made a big 'ol pot of that and we watched "March of the Penguins" which by the way is FANTASTIC. Today it is noon and Michael is still at home. The roads are a mess even though there is no snow it is just all ice. Most schools got the day off and up at TI, Klaus (A friend from Denmark that works up there) let Michael know there were only about 10 or so people around there. Sure Michael can take the DART (train) to work, but we have to drive 8 miles to get him there. The ice on the house and some outside started to melt earlier, but has since stopped and everything is still frozen solid.
It seems like the city as a whole takes way more precautions and was more prepared then Lubbock ever was. The thing we found funny though is that everyone was basically panicking before anything ever hit where as in Lubbock the city seems to just go on with life and waits for it to hit and then waits about 5 hours after that to do anything about it. The only thing I could come up with for the drastic difference is that there are about a bazillion (yes, a BAZILLION) more people here then in Lubbock so the city HAS to be more prepared to take care of that many more people. The only other option I have is that Dallas is filled with a bunch of pansies that don't know how to handle ice/snow storms!! So you be the judge: Well prepared because of all the people, or big pansies??
Michael may still head to work before too long, but we will have to see what the roads do. Good news is he doesn't have to take a personal day for this and is able to work from home. TI is the company that would rather have an employee working from home then a dead employee.
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HA HA, I guess some companies would prefer the dead employee. I know some sure prefer the 'I'm sick, let me come in and infect everyone else' employee as well.
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