Lots of snow

[rhughes@domain.elided]

Harvesters,

The Lake Effect is dumping major inches on us here along the Wasatch Front.
It's been snowing more than 24 hours straight, and this morning I woke up
to almost two feet in the parking lot of my apartment building.  There were
cars spinning their wheels all over outside.  I'd almost decided to just
bag work today -- not because I didn't think I could make it, but because I
figured I had a pretty good excuse.  But then on the news I saw a Jeep
rumble by on the street behind a reporter covering all the traffic
problems.  That clinched it: if a jeep is out there, I have no excuse.

After letting my Scout get good and warmed up, I dropped it into 4lo and
crawled out of the parking lot, past all the lucky guys with their 2wds who
could sleep in in good conscience.  It was a slow drive to work, but of
course I had no problems.

Funny, when I got to work the parking lot was full.  Not just 4wds, either.
It illustrated something I've long believed: Utahns don't get scared by bad
weather.  In a very unscientific survey of parts of the country where I've
lived (Northeast, Midwest, Southern Cal), I've noticed that Utah is least
fazed by severely inclement weather.   In the 10 years I went to public
schools here, we only had school cancelled one day -- and that was when it
was -10 and the power went out!  Maybe it's that all of us UT natives are
used to driving in the snow, or maybe it's that all the recent immigrants
from CA haven't seen enough snow to be scared of it, but it's pretty much
business as usual here today.

Rob

'75 SII, 345, 727