We’re under a winter storm threat, with snow and prolonged freezing temperatures expected, and even though the skies are partly sunny right now the warning is already disrupting my schedule for the week ahead because we could get as much as three inches of snow. I know that sounds funny to people in places that are used to snow and, to be fair, Nashville does get enough snow that we should be used to it by now. Also there are a lot of people who’ve moved here from other places and they should have brought their snow experience with them. I even asked a coworker who’d moved here from Cleveland—Ohio, not Tennessee—how people in her hometown dealt with heavy snow.
“Oh, we know exactly what to do,” she said. “When there’s really heavy snow we stay home.”
That’s wise advice and with telecommuting it’s a lot easier to do that and still get work done, although a part of me misses the days when my wife and I had a vehicle with four-wheel drive and there were snow days when I’d be the only person in the office.
The downside of this winter weather warning is that I’d spent the last two weeks juggling multiple schedules so I could give a tour of where I work to some new employees. I really enjoy giving tours and of course they can happen at any time but I hate having to flood people with meeting requests that then get cancelled followed by new requests.
As my wife was reading off the specifics of the storm warning there was this note at the end: “Mosquito impact is expected to be minimal.”
So there is a bright side to it.
I can’t wait till spring.
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I still get some pleasure from snow, at least for a day or so, but even down here winter can be too cold and last too long. I’m ready to jump right into summer, which will probably happen here sometime in April.
I love snow. ❄️ But not ice and frost. It’s lovely to watch snow falling down but probably not nice to get stuck in traffic in. ❄️❄️❄️
My wife and I used to own Jeeps with four-wheel drive so we could make it through the snow if we absolutely had to but one thing I’ve learned from people who’ve moved to Nashville from places that get a lot more snow is that they stay off the roads when it snows.
The impact of your posts is always maximal, Chris, no matter what the weather.