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Today is a snow day. Kent State cancelled class in Kent and Stark campuses. No teaching. No learning. Classes were cancelled as of 2:15 pm and "snow emergency parking" rules apply, which mean unless your car is in a residential lot, it's towed.
That's them telling us to get-the-fuck-off of campus.
So I did. Amy came and picked me up and brought me back to her job. I am now sitting at the front desk of a pretty delapidated (and definitely abandoned) hotel, blogging about snow.
The resident weather weenies (not on campus, but at the NWS) are predicting 11-22 more inches of snow by Wednesday afternoon, on top of the five or six that have already fallen this morning.
Stark and Kent aren't cancelled for Wednesday yet. If that snow comes, they should be. If Stark (site of the Africa and World classes I just picked up) is cancelled, then I will go nowhere tomorrow and enjoy what's like the fifth snow day in the history of my life. As long as Stark is cancelled, I will skip my Kent class simply because it would be foolish for me to go, cancelled or not. I see no reason to venture out into the deep snow in a small car with a low clearance.
Mr. Pedro, undoubtedly, agrees.
Now, I am waiting for Amy's shift to end. After that shift (which should end at 3 but may be later depending upon when her boss gets back), we will venture out into the white wilderness for the 20-minute trip home. The hills of Ohio, combined with slick roads, make it quite an adventure. If the tires slip, it's hard to get up the hill. Stopping is even more exciting.
Strange thing is, Muncie's getting a blizzard. Officially. See, blizzards have a certain definition: "snow with winds in excess of 35 mph and visibilities of 1/4 mile or less, for an extended period of time, at least three hours," (Schwartz, 2002). Yes, that is a citation in a blog. I've been working on my newest publication today, so a citation seemed natural. My co-author is the author of the article I've cited. He is also my thesis advisor from back in the day.
Either way, Indiana is having a blizzard. It kinda sucks to not be there for the "Blizzard of ought-seven" as it will likely be called by geriatric Hoosiers in 50 years, because I've always heard of the wretched "Blizzard of '77" and "Blizzard of '78," you know, back when I "wasn't even a twinkle in my father's eye."
Enough of the Hoosierisms!
Now that Indiana's getting one, I'm not even there, which is kinda lame. Rumor has it from Indiana contacts that drifts are four to five feet in places, with only half of the expected snow on the ground.
Not bad!
I hope my parents actually went out and purchased some food. They're not very quick on the uptake with things like that sometimes. And they keep so little food in their house on any given day that one day of being snowed in makes them turn to eating paper towels, pool chemicals and perhaps furniture.
Then again, their beast of an SUV should do just fine going through six feet of snow. It should do that, considering it's imposing size, specifications and energy requirements.
Works Cited:
Schwartz, RM. 2002. Climatology of blizzards in the conterminous United States, 1959-2000. Journal of Climate 15: 1765-1772.
So I did. Amy came and picked me up and brought me back to her job. I am now sitting at the front desk of a pretty delapidated (and definitely abandoned) hotel, blogging about snow.
The resident weather weenies (not on campus, but at the NWS) are predicting 11-22 more inches of snow by Wednesday afternoon, on top of the five or six that have already fallen this morning.
Stark and Kent aren't cancelled for Wednesday yet. If that snow comes, they should be. If Stark (site of the Africa and World classes I just picked up) is cancelled, then I will go nowhere tomorrow and enjoy what's like the fifth snow day in the history of my life. As long as Stark is cancelled, I will skip my Kent class simply because it would be foolish for me to go, cancelled or not. I see no reason to venture out into the deep snow in a small car with a low clearance.
Mr. Pedro, undoubtedly, agrees.
Now, I am waiting for Amy's shift to end. After that shift (which should end at 3 but may be later depending upon when her boss gets back), we will venture out into the white wilderness for the 20-minute trip home. The hills of Ohio, combined with slick roads, make it quite an adventure. If the tires slip, it's hard to get up the hill. Stopping is even more exciting.
Strange thing is, Muncie's getting a blizzard. Officially. See, blizzards have a certain definition: "snow with winds in excess of 35 mph and visibilities of 1/4 mile or less, for an extended period of time, at least three hours," (Schwartz, 2002). Yes, that is a citation in a blog. I've been working on my newest publication today, so a citation seemed natural. My co-author is the author of the article I've cited. He is also my thesis advisor from back in the day.
Either way, Indiana is having a blizzard. It kinda sucks to not be there for the "Blizzard of ought-seven" as it will likely be called by geriatric Hoosiers in 50 years, because I've always heard of the wretched "Blizzard of '77" and "Blizzard of '78," you know, back when I "wasn't even a twinkle in my father's eye."
Enough of the Hoosierisms!
Now that Indiana's getting one, I'm not even there, which is kinda lame. Rumor has it from Indiana contacts that drifts are four to five feet in places, with only half of the expected snow on the ground.
Not bad!
I hope my parents actually went out and purchased some food. They're not very quick on the uptake with things like that sometimes. And they keep so little food in their house on any given day that one day of being snowed in makes them turn to eating paper towels, pool chemicals and perhaps furniture.
Then again, their beast of an SUV should do just fine going through six feet of snow. It should do that, considering it's imposing size, specifications and energy requirements.
Works Cited:
Schwartz, RM. 2002. Climatology of blizzards in the conterminous United States, 1959-2000. Journal of Climate 15: 1765-1772.
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