Snoconee - all systems go - Clarke County - watch out for lunatics!
I stayed off the road as much as possible for our supposed six inches of snow here in Oconee County yesterdaym starting at approximately 12:44 pm Sunday at my house. I kept periodically shoveling the driveway and was damn glad I did so today. Lowell and his neighbor buddy Seth tried building a snow fort with out much success. Various dogs I had never seen before came down my street to have a sniff at and with my dog Josephine. I would periodically brush off the lights of my neighbors driving in the streets and announce amazement at their bald tires in this treacherous conditions. When the power started to flicker around 4 pm I heard tree branches cracking in the neighbors yard and told them they needed to move their minivan lest it become the latest victim of the snow fury. I heard a little thunder snow and decided I would make a run for Publix in my 4 wheel drive diesel 2500 pick up truck. It was not as nearly chaotic in the grocery store as I would have first imagined, although it was somewhat amusing to see ritzy women in full length fur coats battling the scruffy types like me to get that last loaf of bread or pair of gloves or other non-refrigerated munchies.
Sometimes it seems that snow makes people forget all forms of civility and sanity, and never was that more evident then driving around Athens on the day off. Numerous limbs limped across Milledge Avenue and everyone seemed to forget that lights out at an intersection means it becomes a four way stop. People were using the freeway over passes as their own private ski and sled runs, except that there is no parking on Milledge. Frat boys in pick up trucks, in the back of pick up trucks decided to start hurling ice balls at innocent passers by and flip the bird to my son and me. Cables and power lines were down everywhere and the by-pass was actually safer than the main thoroughfares.
Luckily it seems the temperature is not going below freezing yet, but surely it will overnight. I did not hear anything about my son's school except for one brief mention on the radio, and when I was without power, I was damn glad to have the battery powered and hand cranked weather radio. I was happy to see the roads of Oconee getting plowed by 2 pm this afternoon. Everyone stay safe and stay off the roads unless you have to be on them.
Sometimes it seems that snow makes people forget all forms of civility and sanity, and never was that more evident then driving around Athens on the day off. Numerous limbs limped across Milledge Avenue and everyone seemed to forget that lights out at an intersection means it becomes a four way stop. People were using the freeway over passes as their own private ski and sled runs, except that there is no parking on Milledge. Frat boys in pick up trucks, in the back of pick up trucks decided to start hurling ice balls at innocent passers by and flip the bird to my son and me. Cables and power lines were down everywhere and the by-pass was actually safer than the main thoroughfares.
Luckily it seems the temperature is not going below freezing yet, but surely it will overnight. I did not hear anything about my son's school except for one brief mention on the radio, and when I was without power, I was damn glad to have the battery powered and hand cranked weather radio. I was happy to see the roads of Oconee getting plowed by 2 pm this afternoon. Everyone stay safe and stay off the roads unless you have to be on them.
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