Job Interview Part 1.5
Posted By Kathleen David on January 20, 2005
OK, I am off to the city for that interview I didn’t have yesterday. today it is at 10 AM. I’ll report how things went after I get back.
Oh and I had another case of hives last night. My face looks like I went 4 rounds with Jack Johnson.
Apparently the word “dusting” of snow means 6 inches these days. It is pretty slick out there.
I am grateful for the interview.
Good luck!!!!! Its not so bad in the city with the snow.
All the best, Kath.
All the best, Kath.
Apparently “a few flurries” means an inch or two.
We were surprised in North Carolina yesterday with just such “a Few Flurries” and I kid you not it took me one hour to drive three blocks to get home. traffic was just that snarled. People from the north literally do not undertand how a little snow can throw a southern city that’s not use to see any or very little into total shut down. Yesterday, up until there was already at least a half-inch on the ground the weather forecasters were insisting that it was only going to be a few flurries or a light dusting at best. The schools shut down, and the businesses had to close so the parents could go get their kids, and so the dominoes began to fall. DOT couldn’t scrape the snow or sand and salt the streets because the traffic had increased. The snow began to melt and turned to ice, and so on and so on.
Good luck on your interview, Kath.
Best of luck Kathleen, part 2.
Eclark,
My wife works in Raleigh, a mere 45 miles away. It took her 6 hours to get home! Most of that time was spent navigating the first 7 miles.
As a transplanted Northerner I make the usual jokes about my Southern brethern but in all seriousness, y’all are some crazy mofos when it comes to driving in the snow!!! A 2 inch smattering can do as much damage as 2 feet would have done in Albany. You can see it in their faces as the car begins to fishtail–“Do I turn into the skid or away from the skid???Which is–” CRUNCH! (simulated car impact sound).
If an accident occurs outside your office window, invite your coworkers over for what will be a highly entertaining series of wrecks as one car after another comes upon the accident, SLAMS on the breaks, and spins helplessly to whatever fate awaits them. You can liven up the action by taking bets.
Hope everyone makes it home safe this weekend.
Bill:
With all due respect, the people crashing the most are the northerners who think they know how to drive in snow.
You see, we don’t just get snow. We get snow that melts and turns to ice, and you can’t scrape ice off the roads.
For some reason, many transplanted northeners can’t seem to understand how difficult that is to drive on and they think that just because they have snow tires, 4 WD or years of experience driving in snow and treat in like it is snow.
You see we’ve had years of experience driving on ice and we’ve reached one inescapable conclusion… you can’t.
Fior some reason
Oh, so it’s those dámņ Yankees who are at fault, huh? 🙂
Actually, we get ice up in New York too but they put so much salt and sand on the roads that it almost nevr turns into North Carolina’s infamous “black ice”
The drawback is that the slt tears the hëll out of your car’s underside and paint job. cars in NC, on average, look much better than those in NY.
I’ve lived here for about 8 years now and it seems to me that the cost to the state from some of these snow storms has been high enough that it might be cost effective to invest in some equiptment. I don’t expect them to be as on the ball as the Albany roadcrews (those guys had stuff on the roads BEFORE the snow started–there would be 12 inches of snow and the highways would be dry as toast) butthere should be no reason 1 or 2 inches should shut down a city like Raleigh.