
Waiting for more snow


Кирилл проболел половину каникул, но в компенсацию получил полную неделю снежных дней.

Федеральное правительство завтра тоже закрыто, хотя в ситуации, когда я не ходил в офис уже почти два года, это выглядит смешно.

Если утром вдруг будет хороший снежок, ещё раз попробую на лыжах сразу с утра. В пятницу утром совещаний нет.

Вдоль 270-го шоссе наготове стоит уборочная техника. В прошлый снегопад Мериленд выступил неплохо, а вот Вирджиния полностью обделалась, особенно на I-95, главной артерии юг-север этого побережья. Знакомые оказались прямо в этом адке, их рассказ на память:
"Sorry i have to get our coming back home experience off my chest. I truly looked in the face of horror yesterday. Now i can say that i lived through the the preview of aliens invasion or post-apocalyptic reality. The roads conditions in Virginia on the way home were beyond bad. Total neglect and lack of any cohesive plan for post-storm cleaning, which didn't realize is possible but here it was. The driving from SC to DC took only 12 hours instead of 6. I am saying only because i saw hundreds of cars along the N95 and in vicinity left, stuck and overturned. I don't know when they made it home. The N95 was not cleaned for the most parts, and other parts were closed for hours (forget about salting all together), including exits and parallel roads leading to thousands of people stranded and driving with a speed 2 mil per hour on the black ice for hours ALL NIGHT. All the surrounding roads were undrivable as well, people stuck every trying to avoid the main roads, ice, ice everywhere. On the top no google maps, huge black-outs of internet connection, no electricity in many parts... People in t-shirts (probably coming from Florida) trying to dig out other people from huge holes. Miles and miles of tracks standing unable to leave the area. We got stuck twice and P. with few Samaritan man was pushing me out in the middle of nowhere (thank you!). I almost lost any hope to get home, was close to tears and preparing to sleep in the car on the 95 surrounded by other fellow sufferers because we were running out of gas. Every resource became scarce, fragility of life and order suddenly became painfully obvious and that was fast. I was astonished by the lack of emergency support from local authorities and absence of any plan. Hopefully there is a lesson in all that but i am not sure what that is. Maybe the fact that P. never lost her cool."
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