When I woke up this morning at 6:00 a.m., all of the streets here in San Antonio were iced over. In fact, the bridges on the local highways were so bad that most of them were closed to all traffic. My own car was so iced over that it took me twenty minutes of running the defroster before I could even begin to scrape the ice off of the windshield. In the end, all I could get clear was the front windshield; none of the side windows or the rear window. Suffice to say that the drive to work was slow and action packed.
I learned a long time ago that South Texans can not drive in icy weather. For some reason, South Texans with SUV’s think that because they have four-wheel drive they can drive over iced bridges at normal speeds without worry. In fact, what normally happens to these brain surgeons is that they hit a patch of black-ice and end up wrecked on the side of the bridge, or worse, crashing into some other motorist. I saw this occur several times this morning.
So, as you can imagine, I am one of only three people at work this morning, in a building usually filled with over 150 people. Nice and quiet, with no calls. I may be able to get some work done!
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