Snow Day!

Okay, it wasn't a declared snow day.. not by the University. By my patience, it was most definitely a snow day.

I left my home at 7:45AM. I didn't know it was supposed to be a freaking blizzard outside. Nope. I don't have cable TV and I work strange hours. Watching the news (more importantly the weather) isn't something I do. All I cared about was that the app on my phone said it was going to be above zero today... an occasion to be celebrated these days.

Anyways, I get outside and have to dig my car out (a slight exaggeration.... 2 inches of snow had accumulated on my car). Starts up just fine, so I drive towards the ominous hill. Have I mentioned the hill? I don't know if I have. When you leave my apartment complex you have to go up a windy and steep hill. This hill is rarely plowed or salted and has caused MANY near death experiences in the past few months. I am getting ready to make the terrifying drive up the hill when I notice that there are literally cars stopped all the way in front of the hill (on Silver Bell) to the stop light. Not only are they at my hill, but they are backed up further down Silver Bell (towards Blackhawk). HOLY CRAP. Apparently everyone in the world/ Eagan knew that there was supposed to be a snow dumping this morning.

I take the sneaky way out of the neighborhood and head towards I-35E (which was a relief seeing as the cars were all backed up heading towards I-35W) only to find.. NOPE. The roads have not even been plowed at all. There are no plows out. People are idiots and from my on ramp, I could see about 8 cars in the ditch and the other bazillion cars weren't moving.

I got on the highway anyways, because I needed to get to campus. I got to this point by roughly 8:00AM.


I had moved MAYBE two miles by the time it was 9:00. Traffic was not clearing. The snow wasn't stopping. Plows weren't coming to rescue us. NOPE. It was just a dead stop.


I gave up at 9:45, exited (only about 7 miles from my apartment) and went home. By home, I definitely mean my sister's house.

It was a snow day. I did homework when I got home tonight. I feel less guilty.

HannahEilene