Checking in I made it to Work and Back Home (wind chill warnings start now)

[Omaha Steve]

I was 20 minutes late getting to work. How did everybody else do?


URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
334 PM CST WED DEC 9 2009

...DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS TO CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY MORNING...

.WITH THE THREAT OF BLOWING SNOW AND BLIZZARD CONDITIONS BEHIND
US...CLEARING SKIES AND DIMINISHING WINDS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES
TO DROP WELL BELOW ZERO OVERNIGHT. THESE COLD TEMPERATURES
COMBINED WITH WINDS OF ABOUT 10 MPH WILL PRODUCE WIND CHILL VALUES
COLDER THAN 20 BELOW FOR MUCH OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST
IOWA OVERNIGHT. THE COLD WIND CHILLS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE
MORNING RUSH HOUR.

[kestrel91316]

1. Our frigid spell is abating, but we are probably gonna have more rain

tomorrow night. It was only 36F last night about this time.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Brutally cold here too.

And I work in the great outdoors. At least sometimes. But the boss said we'll try to stay indoors as much as possible tomorrow. Got to work on time this AM and intend to tomorrow as well.

[MineralMan]

3. Yah. I had to attend a meeting to pitch a web site redesign

today, about 20 miles away from my home. I'm doing the content, and the web designer I work with scheduled this, knowing about the weather. So, I got up this morning and blew off the driveway at 6 AM. My wife took the 4WD to go to her part-time job about a mile away, since...well...since she's my wife, and I took the 20 year old Volvo wagon. Rear wheel drive sucks in Minnesota after a big snowstorm.

I white-knuckled to to the meeting, which went well, so I'm going to get to earn some money, and white-knuckled it home again. Then, I shoveled the sidewalks. All with a -10 degree wind chill. Roads were very bad, with blowing snow and half-plowed freeways. The surface streets were deep in snow. Not a nice drive.

Survival is the name of the game, sometimes. And, still, life must go on.