12 inches and the snow is still a-flying.
I home sick today, but it's not a clinic day for me. Things have changed around here in the past 20 years. Businesses all seem to pretty much close or not expect employees to risk their lives on the road. Perhaps with the advent of telecommuting, people realize you can actually get some work done at home. The clinic decided yesterday to close today; clients were already calling to cancel and most of the therapists would not come in, either. All of this is kind of new to me, since as a teacher, I always knew I didn't have to go to work if there was a big storm. Still, I had a couple of horrific commutes home in the mid-nineties, when it started snowing in the middle of the day, and I had a 20 mile commute, on the highway. What was normally 40 minutes turned into 90 or more minutes, capped off by trying to navigate up a curvy, steep hill to my house, which was my initial reason for getting a 4 wd vehicle when I moved here. Let's just say the 10 year old rear wheel drive Volvo didn't exactly inspire confidence in me when i learned to drive in the snow at age 37.