The weirdest thing happened today. We got this freak snow storm that caused a total white out for a good portion of the day. Then, it started raining. Then, went back to a white out. Then, it started to thunder.

In the middle of all this, I had to walk to another building on our campus to help out on an after hours project. It was snowing like hell, but it was only a couple of hundred feet, so I didn’t think it would be a big deal.

And once I got out there, I got an instant ice cream headache that I could only stop by taking my hand out of my glove and pressing it against my forehead. By the time I had walked 200 feet, the hair of the woman that I was walking with was a sheet of ice. I can only assume that I looked the same.

And the weird part: I couldn’t breathe. I go to the gym 3 times a week, and I can only describe it like being in high altitude. After about 50 feet, one of the people that I was walking with turned back. I thought that I was imagining things until I talked to other people that walked between buildings who reported the same symptoms.

I can only assume that we must’ve had an unbelievably low pressure system in the area that caused this crazy storm.

While I was working on the project, 2 of our admins took it upon themselves to push cars over the new speed bump in the road outside our building when they looked out the window and saw people getting stuck. After about 15 minutes, one of the managers on the job called security to let them know that LAN admins were out in the cold pushing cars to keep traffic moving (which if I remember correctly, is technically not part of a LAN Admin job description). Security exasperatedly reported that they were working on the problem, but I never saw anyone relieve the admins after they were too cold to continue.

The roads were so frozen on the way home that when I wasn’t driving on a 1 inch thick sheet of ice, my car was vibrating through barely formed ruts like the rally car that it’s modeled after. At least the gym was empty and I got to safely drive sideways through some parking lots on the ride home.

(Netflix: I sent 3 movies out on Monday and got only 2 back by Friday, and I have strong doubts that they were picked from the top of my queue.)

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