While Winter hasn’t officially arrived yet on the calendar, someone forgot to tell Mother Nature. Starting early this morning in central Oklahoma we received a layer of sleet and freezing rain followed by six inches of snow. Right on cue, local weathermen issued every warning they could think of — blizzard warnings, slick and hazardous road warnings, low visibility warnings … you name it, we were warned about it through a constant barrage of scrolling tickers and program interruptions. Despite the continual warnings, amateur winter drivers hit the roads in full force and soon there were so many crashes that I-40 was closed in both directions multiple times throughout the day.<\/p>\n

Due to the storm, Mason’s daycare, Mason’s school, and our work were all closed, although there seemed to be a little confusion about that last one. Despite the fact that the FAA center was officially closed, a few people still made the journey in. Fortunately, I was able to do most of my work remotely. Unfortunately Susan left her laptop at work, and after a power outage reset a few of our servers, that gave Dad, Mason and I an excuse to head up to the FAA, braving the ice to find out how the aptly-named Avalanche handles on slick roads (turns out, not too bad). I’m sure a younger me would’ve spent more time out playing in the snow, looking for hills to slide down or making a snowman (or snow ice cream!), but unfortunately I spent the majority of my afternoon sitting at my laptop, working on a few work projects and helping out where I could. Plus, it was cold as cold gets (with the wind chill, it hovered right around 0 degrees). <\/p>\n

Still, we managed to squeeze a *little* fun in today …<\/p>\n

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While tomorrow’s technically my day off, I need to make up about three hours tomorrow morning. After that I’ve got a funeral to attend at 10am and I’m picking up Stephen for the Hornets game at 5pm — between those two events I need to get my CPAP machine over to the sleep study place to have it adjusted, and get a haircut. All that on a layer of ice. Yikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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