It snowed in Raleigh today.<\/p>\n
A week ago the temperatures were in the seventies. Two days ago the high was twenty-five. Today was slightly warmer, and for three hours this morning snow fell. The snow hadn’t started when I arrived at the store at nine. Half past ten the flurries started. By one-thirty it was over. By five the sun came out and the clouds cleared off.<\/p>\n
Accumulations weren’t much, maybe half an inch. But half an inch is enough unleash bedlam upon Raleigh.<\/p>\n
I worked a twelve hour shift today. Business was quiet all day, and throughout the day other stores called wanting to know if they could close due to the weather. Most did. I never saw the reason.<\/p>\n
Driving home at ten was a minor adventure. The shopping center’s parking lot was a nightmare–a sheet of ice. The roads themselves were in fine shape. But everywhere, abandoned vehicles, some pulled off the road, some in the median, some blocking a lane of traffic. And in a half-mile stretch of the expressway, four<\/i> separate accidents on both sides of the road.<\/p>\n
I wish I could say the weather brought some character to the week. It’s been a quiet week, the one highlight being when I treated one of my employees out to dinner so we could go over her six-month review.<\/p>\n
I’m off tomorrow, mostly. Except for an inventory at one of the stores in town I don’t need to go out, so I’ve blocked out tomorrow for six hours of writing time. I began the story on Sunday, wrote a thousand words to get down the voices of the narrator and the main character. We’ll see how far I can push the story tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Cheers, people. Have a Guinness. I am. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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