I miss snow

Don't read this if you expect me to have a point.  I don't.

Snow would fall and I would shovel the sidewalk and my parking space and throw down some salt.   I'd wake up early to make clean off my truck and slowly drive to work.  Sure I had $400 NIPSCO bills for 3-4 months, but we made it through ok.

All summer long, I hear everyone down here talking about how we need rain.  Dallas needs rain...wish it would rain...rain would be nice.  I have no idea what the hell these people want rain for.  It rained for two days and all the fucking streets are flooded.  Most folks can't drive when it's sunny and dry...there were 204 accidents in Dallas today...just Dallas, not counting the surrounding cities because of RAIN.  Power is out in Fort Worth because the ice is too heavy for the power lines.  Any time there is rain and ice, the power goes out.  It's never occured to the power companies to put up sturdy power lines. 

Driving on ice isn't like driving on snow.  I'm not talking about occassional patches of ice.  I'm talking about a rock-solid 2 inch sheet covering every piece of drivable roadway.  It sucks a lot of ass. 

You may be wondering why the salt doesn't melt the ice given that it's sunny and the ground is relatively warm.  God knows I was wondering when I had to drive to work in it last year.  Texas doesn't lay down salt.  The cities down here put down pretty, golden sand they sell at Toys R US for kids' sandboxes....it's good for sand blasting your paint job, but it doesn't do shit for the ice. 

I was also confused as to why every time I turned around, the cabinets were open.  It's so the water lines don't freeze.  They don't bury water lines down here more than a couple of feet.  The lines freeze in the winter...don't get me started on trying to get cold water in the summer.  

I'm sure that half the staff will call of on Monday and the rest will be 2-3 hours late.  I'm one of 3 people who's actuallyon time when the weather is bad.  Now I can't be on time any other day, but inclement weather makes me look good.

It was 75 degrees when I went to lunch on Friday.  By 5 oclock it was 40 degrees.  That's why I stay sick.  I'm all annoyed and aggravated.  And it's not just the weather.  But it's colder than a witch's titty so that's what I'm gonna focus on.