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Expectation Setting
Feb. 13th, 2013 12:24 amCiro's mom has been put on a plane after two weeks of being sick, snowed in, or sick and snowed in. Somehow I don't think it's going to make her list of top 10 vacations, despite amiable company.
Our town got two and a half feet of snow in one night, and it took most of two days to shovel out. Many people have still not done so, which means pedestrians walking in the street. (The sidewalks are currently beneath four to five feet of snow, because that's where we moved the stuff that was previously on the street.)
Unfortunately, many motorists seem to have entered a panicked fugue state and believe that snow means all rules of life and death have been suspended. Two of my foot-traveling friends have already narrowly missed getting hit by people driving above the speed limit, who then yelled at them for being in the road; and I have been honked at while behind the wheel for not running people over. Because it's a road and cars go go go go and pedestrians aren't supposed to be in the street and so must not be, even though you can see they are.
Our town got two and a half feet of snow in one night, and it took most of two days to shovel out. Many people have still not done so, which means pedestrians walking in the street. (The sidewalks are currently beneath four to five feet of snow, because that's where we moved the stuff that was previously on the street.)
Unfortunately, many motorists seem to have entered a panicked fugue state and believe that snow means all rules of life and death have been suspended. Two of my foot-traveling friends have already narrowly missed getting hit by people driving above the speed limit, who then yelled at them for being in the road; and I have been honked at while behind the wheel for not running people over. Because it's a road and cars go go go go and pedestrians aren't supposed to be in the street and so must not be, even though you can see they are.
