HEY GUESS WHAT?

[channonyarrow]

Okay. I am SO FUCKING TIRED OF FUCKING SNOW that I cannot even use enough fucking caps. SERIOUSLY. I hate snow, I hate ice, and I have not been out of my fucking neighbourhood for a WEEK I am going CRAZY.

SO GUESS WHAT THE FORECAST IS?

That's right! More Christ-fucking snow. Also, hello 90 mph winds! And just so you know? 90 mph winds are a Category I HURRICANE.

In case that's not enough fun? Up to twelve inches of snow in the lowlands, and two feet in the foothills.

Oh, and the likelihood of power outages. AGAIN. I can't keep doing this, I really, really cannot.

Now. Guess where I live.

That's right! I live in an area that (1) gets lake-effect snow; (2) has insane hills on all sides, except for, you know, the sides that run into the water, and even there I have fucking hills; (3) has reportedly been characterised as the hardest-hit area in Metro Seattle in this last go-round. Now. I am approximately 260 feet above sea level; in my opinion, it should not be this way. But it is. Because God hates me.

So basically, I'm really depressed and really unhappy, and there is not a whole fuck of a lot I can do about any of this because I am TIRED of entertaining myself; I have been doing that for a week, with some success, and now I'm just out. I have nothing left. I am out of happy, and positivism is in very short supply.

And making EIGHTY cookies isn't going to fucking help, even though I'm going to do it, on the off-chance that I can go participate in this cookie exchange tomorrow, but I HAVE TO PACK AN OVERNIGHT BAG to do this because I may not make it home because the weather is going to start shitting on us again about the time that we are supposed to be coming home. Yay!

And also? Sorry to be selfish, but everyone who's getting whacked in the Midwest and the Northeast? Y'all have resources to deal with this. We don't. My understanding is that the City of Seattle has thirteen snowplows and deicing trucks - that is not enough. No one here can drive in snow, I refuse to drive in snow, and Metro Transit isn't able to hack this one, folks, given that their system is at least half shut down, and particularly the routes that run to West Seattle. So. I realise that right now unless you are in Phoenix it's bad all over but trust me when I say: I have it worse.

ETA: THIS is why I don't drive in snow. Because I never want to see a charter bus crashing through the guardrail above I5 and hanging there - barely while I'm driving, and I never, ever want to see a second one join it.

Also, it's 26 degrees out. WHY?

Comments

Re: shoveling misery

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Your friend should park elsewhere and hike in. It's good for the soul, or so I hear. I wouldn't know, I just had to walk home yesterday because Metro stopped running.

I want to move to Borneo. Wanna go with me?

Re: shoveling misery

[camlewis.livejournal.com]

At this point, my plan is to have him park at the head of the driveway, and hope like hell we can dig him out of the plow's inevitable passing wrath tomorrow. As for me, I may not, in all seriousness, be able to drive anywhere until spring. Yes, it's that bad.

What's Borneo like? I know jack shit about it. Were it not for my 3 cats, I would be willing to abandon everything and start over just about anywhere at this point. I'm really at the end of my rope.

Re: shoveling misery

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

No idea, but it's a jungle island in Indonesia that seems to not have as much strife as, say, Java or Bali. On the other hand, it's also partially Brunei and Malaysia, so maybe Papua would be a better choice. That island's far from Jakarta and the natives are really dark-skinned, so it's treated about how we treat the Ozarks. So, you know. I'd trade snow for cyclones and monsoons, no problem. I'd even take having to be Christian on my ID and having to learn Bahasa Indonesia. And we could get awesome tattoos if we could find someone to do them (that, of course, is banned in Indonesia).

At this point, I am not totally sure I'll be able to go over to my parents' house for Christmas, frankly. It's gonna depend on when and if all this ice fucking melts. I slid walking out of the driveway; god knows if the car'll make it.