Snow day
Thursday, February 08, 2007
A triple treat today as it was snowing. I woke up and could tell that it had snowed. How? Snow seems to mute all of the sound outside, and this morning was unusually silent. I didn't hear a single car drive past. So when i looked out the window I was greeted with:
A hell of a lot of snow, much more than i was expecting. The first thing i did was try and find out if my train was on time or even running, but their website was being overloaded with request. So grumble about them for five minutes and then decided to get ready for work and hope for the best. This is what my road looked like this morning:
Very cold and slippery, I know I don't live on a main road but there was no gritting at all. Even the road down to the train station was pretty bad and that had been gritted. Though they didn't seem to do any of the paths. So my walk to walk, was entertaining, take two steps forward then slide a few more feet. Its amazing, it doesn't matter how old you are snow never loses its novelty. I got to the train station in good time, planning for the worst case, but to my surprise the train came early! Plus there were plenty of seats. It is crazy how on a normal day the train is nearly always late, yet 3inchs of snow and it comes early. I cant explain that. It was great to see all the people on the platform laughing as the train pulled in. I think everyone was expecting delay, me included. Below is the platform, ice and icy.
