Eugh. Yeah, that's just scary. We're humid as well (though not as humid as Nashville, I'm guessing? Not sure about that...), so when it gets up there... you just don't want to move. At all. Thank goodness it doesn't stay that way... particularly since my best friend is currently in Taiwan, so I can't even get a good gripe about the heat in without her being like "oh yeah, well it's that hot and humid ALWAYS, here!" And then I feel guilty.
As far as snow and ice go, I am very grateful that I don't drive. I live at the top of a very steep hill in downtown, and if I were to try to drive that in snowy conditions... bad things would happen. I'm a bad enough driver without snow and ice (hence living in the city with our beautiful wonderful public transit system, which I love). Last year, when we had INSANE amounts of snow for Seattle, and weather that kept it laying around for weeks on end, the worst of it for me wasn't actually the snow and ice at first... at least that meant that my bus just never showed up and work got canceled. (Although, god, the number of times I fell on my butt onto the ice that winter... do not even bear telling. Hiking boots and Doc Martens, while great on trails and mud and rocks, are not good for snow. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.) No, the worst was the week after the big snow, when the stupid snow plow had finally got out to my stupid office and shoved all the snow UP ONTO THE SIDEWALKS. Very handy for the drivers, I'm sure, but I basically came up with my new conception of hell that week - trying to walk down an already-skinny sidewalk in poor visibility with traffic rushing by me, on piles of heaped-up uneven snow with patches of ice made of snow that'd been tamped down by other pedestrians.
Looking back, it was exciting and fun. At the time, I was sure I was going to die. ;)
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Date: 2010-08-13 06:06 am (UTC)As far as snow and ice go, I am very grateful that I don't drive. I live at the top of a very steep hill in downtown, and if I were to try to drive that in snowy conditions... bad things would happen. I'm a bad enough driver without snow and ice (hence living in the city with our beautiful wonderful public transit system, which I love). Last year, when we had INSANE amounts of snow for Seattle, and weather that kept it laying around for weeks on end, the worst of it for me wasn't actually the snow and ice at first... at least that meant that my bus just never showed up and work got canceled. (Although, god, the number of times I fell on my butt onto the ice that winter... do not even bear telling. Hiking boots and Doc Martens, while great on trails and mud and rocks, are not good for snow. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.) No, the worst was the week after the big snow, when the stupid snow plow had finally got out to my stupid office and shoved all the snow UP ONTO THE SIDEWALKS. Very handy for the drivers, I'm sure, but I basically came up with my new conception of hell that week - trying to walk down an already-skinny sidewalk in poor visibility with traffic rushing by me, on piles of heaped-up uneven snow with patches of ice made of snow that'd been tamped down by other pedestrians.
Looking back, it was exciting and fun. At the time, I was sure I was going to die. ;)