i hate snow

I really hated this week.  Why?  Because it snowed again.  Snow in North Carolina is the most annoying phenomena because everything shuts down, everyone freaks out, and it is just ridiculous.  I suspected Wednesday would be bad because we had a forecast for an ice storm, but it was not the ice that made this week miserable - it was the traffic.  It started to snow Wednesday around noon and ALL of Research Triangle Park decided it was time to go home before the roads got bad.  Enter flashbacks of 2005 or 2006 when the entire city was gridlocked for hours and hours.  Traffic was horrible.  It took me an hour and a half to go two miles.  The terrible road conditions and stop-and-go traffic caused me to cross three lanes of traffic at one point in my little Taco, that already slides in just rain.  I have never been so afraid in my whole life!  Obviously when I almost wrecked I thought I was going to wreck and maybe be hurt, but extremely luckily, the people on the other side of the road were able to get out of my way.  But other than that I was afraid of wrecking again, afraid I'd run out of gas before getting home, afraid my car would get stuck, afraid it would take me hours to get home.... enter panic attack.  I really tried being calm, but it is hard when you are boxed in on all sides with traffic that is not moving.  I also freaked out because on Google Maps it shows what traffic conditions are like, and I remember from the day it took me an hour and a half to get to work (that day was also fun - gotta love RTP traffic) that when it is blood-red it basically means traffic is not moving at all.  All of Raleigh was blood-red, and I had another 9 miles or so to go when my mom and I decided it would be best for me to stay in a hotel for the night.  I was such a ball of nerves, and it was questionable as to whether or not I would get home in even 5 more hours (it took STG 2.5 hours to go from the vet school to Cameron Village!), that it was the best option at the time.  I was so anxious, that it took me hours to calm down after being in the car with all the traffic and snow.  Kyle got home in about 2 hours, which was one source of anxiety, so once he got home I relaxed a little more, but worrying about getting my car out and getting home the next day continued to worry me for a while longer.  Anyway, the moral of the story is that now that I don't get snow days for school, I'd be perfectly happy if I never saw snow again.  It just messes up everything!!  

Here are some pictures from the only one in the family who does love snow, no matter what (she's chasing snowballs in all the pictures except the first).

this one cracks me up every time ^