The Anti-Snow Day
Posted in The Life of the Historian and tagged with Traffic, Weather, Work on February 3, 2009A couple of weeks ago, the Triangle (the cool name for Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill) got blasted with snow, and I was able to stay home from work. Of course, this was when the tax season was still a wee baby, so it wasn’t hard to hold back the people wanting you to file their taxes now to get their refund back ASAP, because most people didn’t even have all their documents anyway.
Tonight we’re expected to get another coat of snow (what’s the deal? there’s a reason to live in NC, and it’s not because of snowfall), and I had thought that I could make tomorrow another snow day. That was when I thought that tomorrow was Thursday, a non-tax day. I was probably thrown off by the fact that I spent today doing taxes, which is also a non-tax day.
So this snow day will never come to fruition, even if we get the snow predicted (and the crazy drivers to go along with it). I have 7 tax appointments set up tomorrow that I have to keep. Sure, some of them will cancel, but most of them probably won’t. Regardless, I have to be there just in case.
So tomorrow, I’ll have to be one of the crazies. It’s been a few years since I’ve driven on snow or ice, but hopefully I’ll manage!
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February 3rd, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Ah. By the way, you should be a hand model. ;)
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Be careful! Growing up in Buffalo, I never worried about driving in snow/ice…until I moved to Atlanta, and had to drive on the same road with people who’ve rarely driven on snow or ice. What a mess!
Want to know a cool part of learning to drive in Buffalo? Most parents take their kids out to an empty parking lot on a snowy day to teach them how to control skids. Basically, it’s an hour of parent-approved snow doughnuts! Hee!
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Please be safe, “sister”! I need you for my maid of honor!
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Be careful! People in North Carolina generally drive crazy on a day when the sun is out and the road is dry much less cloudy with snow!
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:20 pm
I hadn’t heard about your predicted snow. My daughter in Goldsboro just posted pictures a few days ago of her flowers that are coming up. Fickle weather!
My hubby moonlights as a tax pro. We received several new inches of snow today to replenish what melted of last week’s foot or so. He said people are frantically trying to get their taxes done so the offices are staying open no matter what. I was always one of those last minute filers so I didn’t realize so many were in such a hurry. In my mind it’s a long time until April 15th.
Stay safe and warm!
February 4th, 2009 at 9:08 am
It is a strange world we live in when you get more snow than us! :-)
I answered the questions you sent me last week and posted them on my blog. :-)
February 4th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I am amazed by how people get so worked up about driving in just a dusting of snow. I swear in my whole K-12 career, we had maybe 3 snow days. Here in Baltimore, they cancel school if they even forecast snow. It’s insane.