Bring it, clouds!

[fredericks]

Aaaaaaaaaaaand it's awesome outside. I mean, mainly because I don't drive, but still! I was running into patients' rooms going "hey, wake up! here are your meds! it's snoooooowing!", and they were all "*grumble, grum-*...! really? it's snowing! hell yeah!" Paraphrased, of course. All the day nurses came in late. Even the one girl who showed up at a decent time was late, because she generally shows up much earlier. Roads were closed, there were accidents galore, the parking lot was shut down (it's up on a hill); basically, LI has horrendously bad snow coping skills. We ended up detouring on the way home, and the only reason we didn't end up stalling or stuck like half of the cars we zoomed by was because the truck had 4-Wheel Drive. We passed at the grocers on the way, and I gave in to my winter vibe. So, for breakfast (dinner? I work night shift, I'm not sure what meal it is I just ate) I had a cup of New England Clam Chowder, breadsticks, and tapioca pudding. I would have indulged in a cup of hot chocolate, but the calories had to stop somewhere. Still! It's dangerously pretty outside.

Snow! Yayz!

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[fredericks.livejournal.com]

That's precisely what happened here. It was the first substantial fall, and all the weather outlets were predicting some snow with a change to rain, so the public officials out on the Island did NOTHING: no salt, no warnings, nothing. So when the rain didn't come and the temperature dropped to the teens (F), people in cars drove on roads that were essentially ice sheets like everything was hunky-dorey...and it would have been if some rock salt had been laid down, but nope. The number of calls we got were astounding! One nurse after another calling in to say they'd be late. We made a game of it after a while. And then, accident here, accident there, highways cut off. Ridiculous. And the buses out on the Island are an utter joke: if it rains hard you're guaranteed to be late by at least half an hour. NYC is so much better prepared.