![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariThis morning I made an attempt to get into work. I've burned through all my vacation, sicktime and personal time on snow days, and now any days I have to miss are unpaid. So I attempted to get out of my parking lot.
The truck made it out just fine...till I tried to turn up the hill. The truck immediately began to slide down the hill. I tried to straighten up into my parking spot again, but instead just proceeded to slip and twist more.
Emily began trying to push the truck up the hill as I powered the wheels, but the truck wasn't moving. Two other folks pushed then got in the back while Emily attempted to get me back into my spot - not happening. I began jumping in the bumper - and ended up slipping off and falling on my back - this is my fourth fall since all this happened, and my back is killing me.
Eventually I gave up on trying to get back into my spot, and try to park somewhere on the road to my complex. I reversed it till I was finally 90 degrees from my plot and aimed down the road. According to Emily she managed to help me straighten up by simply PUSHING my pickup into place, wheels locked - it was that slick.
I managed to power up the hill finally, and made the turn on to the next hill. The apartment complex had finally cleared a little ice around the entrance and sanded the snow for a bit up the first hill, so I was able to power up the first rise with no problem.
The problem became the second rise - trying to power up the second rise, I began to slip - and not just the losing traction kind of slip, but a full spin. I ended up 180 degrees, pointing back down the rise. I took that as a sign of "You're not going to work today" and aimed back home. I made the hills just fine, but as I went into my parking space, I slid hard across the carport and landed in the spot next to the one assigned to me. No amount of work was getting that pickup out of there, I just threw my hands up, and gave up (after calling work, and then my manager's office that I was parked in someone elses space and couldn't get out).
Today was above freezing. IT was sunny, too. And yet, the ice is going nowhere. Why?
We went out on the road that leads to my parking lot with a tire iron and hammer. I chiseled down to the pavement and measured it.
THERE IS AN INCH AND A HALF OF PURE ICE ON THE ROAD. Not snow, but COMPACTED ICE. On a hill slope. I don't live on a road anymore, this is officially a skislope. Or an ice rink. No one, including 4x4s and people with chains, are getting out of the complex without a fight with this stuff.
This is just insane. First, our complex never did anything to the snow pack until TODAY, five days into the snow event, and the city has never plowed our road up our hill, as far as we can tell, they have NO PLANS TO.
I realize this is a once in forty year storm (with MORE snow to come!), but this is ridiculous. If State College, Pennsylvania, a town about the size of Renton, can plough all their roads every day before rush hour (or at least sand/cinder/salt them), Renton should be able to. Especially the hill areas as the flat areas are just fine.
Instead, I live on a ski slope with no conceivable way to get to work until this all melts away, and that is a long time coming. Especially if there's no ploughs or sand. The ones I really deel sorry for are the folks in the lower areas of our complex. They can't even get NEAR to the apartment entrance because the hills are too steep.
My god, people, MAINTAIN THE ROADS! I've already called in for work tomorrow, too - but if this keeps up, I'm totally out of money, and the paycheck will just hurt like hell exactly when I need money the most.
The truck made it out just fine...till I tried to turn up the hill. The truck immediately began to slide down the hill. I tried to straighten up into my parking spot again, but instead just proceeded to slip and twist more.
Emily began trying to push the truck up the hill as I powered the wheels, but the truck wasn't moving. Two other folks pushed then got in the back while Emily attempted to get me back into my spot - not happening. I began jumping in the bumper - and ended up slipping off and falling on my back - this is my fourth fall since all this happened, and my back is killing me.
Eventually I gave up on trying to get back into my spot, and try to park somewhere on the road to my complex. I reversed it till I was finally 90 degrees from my plot and aimed down the road. According to Emily she managed to help me straighten up by simply PUSHING my pickup into place, wheels locked - it was that slick.
I managed to power up the hill finally, and made the turn on to the next hill. The apartment complex had finally cleared a little ice around the entrance and sanded the snow for a bit up the first hill, so I was able to power up the first rise with no problem.
The problem became the second rise - trying to power up the second rise, I began to slip - and not just the losing traction kind of slip, but a full spin. I ended up 180 degrees, pointing back down the rise. I took that as a sign of "You're not going to work today" and aimed back home. I made the hills just fine, but as I went into my parking space, I slid hard across the carport and landed in the spot next to the one assigned to me. No amount of work was getting that pickup out of there, I just threw my hands up, and gave up (after calling work, and then my manager's office that I was parked in someone elses space and couldn't get out).
Today was above freezing. IT was sunny, too. And yet, the ice is going nowhere. Why?
We went out on the road that leads to my parking lot with a tire iron and hammer. I chiseled down to the pavement and measured it.
THERE IS AN INCH AND A HALF OF PURE ICE ON THE ROAD. Not snow, but COMPACTED ICE. On a hill slope. I don't live on a road anymore, this is officially a skislope. Or an ice rink. No one, including 4x4s and people with chains, are getting out of the complex without a fight with this stuff.
This is just insane. First, our complex never did anything to the snow pack until TODAY, five days into the snow event, and the city has never plowed our road up our hill, as far as we can tell, they have NO PLANS TO.
I realize this is a once in forty year storm (with MORE snow to come!), but this is ridiculous. If State College, Pennsylvania, a town about the size of Renton, can plough all their roads every day before rush hour (or at least sand/cinder/salt them), Renton should be able to. Especially the hill areas as the flat areas are just fine.
Instead, I live on a ski slope with no conceivable way to get to work until this all melts away, and that is a long time coming. Especially if there's no ploughs or sand. The ones I really deel sorry for are the folks in the lower areas of our complex. They can't even get NEAR to the apartment entrance because the hills are too steep.
My god, people, MAINTAIN THE ROADS! I've already called in for work tomorrow, too - but if this keeps up, I'm totally out of money, and the paycheck will just hurt like hell exactly when I need money the most.
