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[laceblade]

Am at Memorial Library right now, where it is very warm. The sky opened up this morning while I was taking my shower, and has been dumping piles of snow ever since. I don't know what the deal is, but the city of Madison does a really shitty job of plowing streets. And by that, I mean they could improve by bothering to do it at all.

I was convinced by Louise (roommate) that I shouldn't drive my car to campus - she got stuck on a road and had to let the car drift in reverse because her car couldn't make it up a moderate hill. Soooooo, I took the bus. Made an outline and a thesis for my women's studies paper.

Now I have to trudge across Library Mall to Humanities for Anime Club, and hope that the guys with the laptop will make it there!

Mostly, I'm worried about how I'll be getting home. A co-worker wanted to go to a couple of nearby (to campus) bars to celebrate her 21st birthday, but the buses don't really run that much past midnight or 1am. I'm hoping that the outing either gets canceled, or that Antoine is crazy enough to walk there, and then walk with me as far as his house, :) I did pack long underwear in the event that the buses stop running (that happened once last year), and I am still on campus.

I am glad that I didn't drive, though....the roads looked pretty crappy on my way here, and I can only imagine how bad it will be (....is? I've been holed up here for a couple of hours) once the falling snow turns to rain, and freezes over.

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[karenb2.livejournal.com]

Heading home after the sleet started this afternoon, we got home (from Shorewood -- so far! but too much stuff to carry while walking) okay but then got stuck in the street right outside troublebrewing's house. Fortunately, her spouse and I were able to push the car enough to get it up the driveway, more or less.

Someone else made it home (farther west) and got stuck just outside HER garage. So not driving is probably a fine thing. And I did see one plow on University -- around 1 PM, heading east.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

Yeah....given how difficult it was to get my car out this morning, I can't imagine driving in it, last night. Walking sucked, but I'm glad I did it.

[sasha-feather.livejournal.com]

I think I saw in madisonwi that buses aren't running tonight. Hope you make it home OK, and btw my mom advised me not to drive the (my) PT Cruiser in the snow, since it likes to get stuck in drifts. :( So I'm pretty well holed up for the night. Stay warm!!

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

They were running, but the weekend schedule is really shitty, and everything stops at 11 or before, except for the campus routes, which *could* come every hour, or could not....? They need to make a solid schedule for those buses, :P

I ended up walking the 2.2 miles.