One week ago I was sent home at
12:30 due to the impending snowpocalypse. I made it home safely, little
suspecting that I would be homebound for the next week due to the snow! The
snow hit hard and fast Friday and Saturday night and shut the city down in its
entirety. Then on Tuesday the snow came again and added another foot to the two
already on the ground. I could not get out of the house at all on Wednesday due
to blizzard conditions. The metro was shut down and my truck was buried in
snow. For six days I was in limbo, waiting for a phone call each night to tell
me if I was going to work in the morning. Last night the call finally changed,
telling me to report for work this morning.
So I headed out earlier than normal
this morning in order to safely get on the metro and make it into work.
Things seemed promising when I arrived. There were not too many people on
the platform, and there was a train scheduled to arrive in ten minutes. Problem
was, when that train arrived it was so packed full of people that they were
falling out when the door opened and it was physically impossible to fit anyone
else inside! I waited for the next train, which came about 15 minutes later and
looked exactly the same. So did the one after that. Normally the trains come
every 3-4 minutes, but this morning, because of the snow, they were 15-20
minutes apart, and I was too far down the line and could not get on. So after
nearly an hour of waiting on the platform I finally gave up and decided to walk
to work. So I walked a little over five miles through snow, down streets
because sidewalks were still buried, across much of the city of Washington DC
in order to arrive at work once again!
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