Winter horror-land

I think my last post jinxed us. This is what it’s like outside right now …

They’re advising no travel in town …

The city of Fargo is advising residents to avoid travel on Fargo city streets.

Fargo police officers and Fargo Public Works staff are encountering numerous vehicles stuck in the snow.

Blowing and drifting snow is also creating visibility problems on city streets.

Fargo plans to keep snow plows on the streets as long as visibility levels allow them to operate safely.

If you must travel, Fargo Police advise you to use the city’s snow emergency routes.

Because of that, they let me go home from work early (I left at 2pm). Thank goodness I can take major roads most of the way home. I usually don’t take those roads … I take some back roads ‘cuz they’re quicker. But not today. I took the long way so I could take those major roads. And from when I turned onto 25th Street until I turned off of 13th Ave to my apartment, I was behind snowplows. There were only really 2 tricky spots for me … getting out of the parking lot at work and getting into the parking lot at my apartment. But I made it through both spots. I gunned it to get into the parking lot at my apartment. I could hear the snow on the undercarriage … but I made it. And they had already plowed the lot (that’s where all that snow between the garages in the pic came from … and that had all finally melted from our other snow storms).

I hope Kelly makes it home okay. She left at 1:30pm, but she lives out of town. She’s got a ways to go too. It took me about 30 minutes to get home, when it normally takes about 15 minutes or so, depending on traffic. And that was all major roads. But she said that it was worse in town this morning coming in to work than it was out in the country. Hopefully she doesn’t have any problems.