For the past twenty-four hours, the city where I live has been in a state of snow emergency: essentially, the word from the mayor’s office has been to stay off the roads. I can’t say that I was particularly tempted, all things considered.
Notably, my university’s campus is closed today as it was yesterday. This is pretty close to unprecedented, since even a single “snow day” is pretty much considered a last-resort kind of thing; there’s no official policy, and the unofficial one seems to be that campus closes when the city’s shut down.
This is the first winter in eight years where I’ve had to wield a shovel. Dammit.