The train was packed

The train was packed this morning.! Truly packed. I bet there are issues with the trains today and something happened to the train right before mine and were carrying all the prior trains folk. Snow fell during the night a lot of snow. The temperature dropped and I knew there would be challenges all day but yet I was eager to be out the door and off to work. I had an 8:30 Real Choice meeting over at Dept of Human Services, so I knew I would be out of the office nearly as soon as I got in but I at least got in Ok. Kinda. When ever it snows and I leave for work I always stop next door at Al’s and make a design on his driveway. So when Al gets up he’ll know I was there. This morning there was so much snow in the driveway I was afraid to drive my chair back in for fear that my chair would get stuck. I had to get off the sidewalks as soon as I could—the plow had already been down the streets so the street it self was OK, my major challenge was getting to the street. I actually blasted threw the mini-snow bank the plows had created and made it to the cleaned surface of the street. This ended being the method of operation for the remainder of my morning: try to get as much speed as possible then slam throu8gh the back of snow infront of me.

The weather guys talked a big storm about the amount of snow we were going to get pounded with but they also yammered a lot about how cold the temperature was going to be. True, the temperature was cold, even brisk but not unendurable. I dressed in layers and wore gloves, a scarf and my FBI stocking hat. I was sweating. My only clothing deficiency was my shoes. I have started wearing my ancient slip-ons again. The slip-ons are great to wear for ease of wearing but they sure offer little, protection from the elements i.e. snow! As mentioned each drift I would plow through, I would plough through feet first and my feed would get a new caking of snow. I do own a set of waffle stomppers but cannot get my hands on them at this point I time. I think my feet would be a lot warmer. So, yes it was cold but not enough to really keep me from doing my daily routine.

The last stop for my Train is the Delta Center, downtown, I got in today about 7:10, late because of some many problem on the train—due to the over load of people, people were standing in the stairways to the cars. When this happens it makes it so the doors will not close correctly making the driver to have to leave his driving station traipse all the way back to the door in question roust the offending commuter form the stair well and then come all the way back and continue on. When I got off the train I was dismayed to see the Sport arena people still had not plowed the side walks of their arena. I plowed on—Long story short I ended up driving down the packed side of the street…the sidewalks to the office we non-negotiable—I dodged lots of traffic but I finally got into the office. I made coffee and was out of the office again I half an hour heading for my meeting at Human services.

When I left the office for my meeting noone had yet come into the office. I left the coffee on and the doors locked. The sun was out now, brisk but clear and the sun was doing it’s work. Snow , in many places, was becoming slush. More sidewalks had been shoveled and plowed by this point in time. BUT , the snow in most cases was not taken from the gutters and if you use a wheelchair for mobility you know you HAVE to go thru these gutters to get to the sidewalk. I ended up going the long way but I got to my meeting and on time.

The snows have abated now the sun is out and the meld down is happening even if the temp is still below freezing. This is this winters last or next to last gust I know this snow will not last long. I am just tickled the chair handled as well as it did.