Interesting day.
January 29th, 2005 | by john |So I woke up today around 6am because of tapping sound outside my window. I look through the blinds and it was Winterland – everything was covered in white. Since there was no way I could’ve made it out of campus without issues, I had to wait until the roads were more travelled on.
Around 11am, I thought the road off of the parking deck was clear enough to drive through. I get outside the apartment and was amazed at an almost-smooth layer of ice on the sidewalks that was about half an inch thick. I normally wear my old tennis shoes to work but if I had done that today, I would’ve falled on my ass at least 5 times on the way to my car. Fortunately, I wore my boots and surprisingly, I could walk at a normal pace without feeling any slippage.
Anyway, on Marietta Street. there was an inch or two of ice/snow in the middle of the lane so I thought it was safe to assume that the outer part of the lanes were safer. Well, apparently, although it looked like wet ground, it was actually thin layer of ice.
Glad the building had a parking garage, otherwise, I wouldn’t have dared to have taken my car but rather walked to the Marta station.
Hopefully, it won’t rain anymore tonight and it will get warm enough for the ice to melt into slush or something.
