First Snow of the Season

Calvin once told Hobbes:  "Nobody ever closed a school on account of prettiness." He obviously didn't live here.  

It generally takes half an inch of the white stuff here to shut things down and that's exactly what happened this morning.  Most businesses and schools were on a 2-hour delay.  Seems like overkill when the roads look like this, doesn't it?

It's really for the best, though.  The infrastructure here really isn't set up to deal with snow and ice and, since it happens so infrequently, the people don't really get to train up in real world situations.  They're all, like, "Do I turn gently into the skid or turn gently away from the skid?  Oh, the heck with it, I'll just flip the XM radio to the All Spike Jones channel and drive like I'm in a cartoon as usual".

Best to just stay out of their way and snap some pics like I did Tuesday morning.  Rumor has it that next Monday the snow might get as high as Mr. Minifig's sword, here, so, you know, time to loot the stores for all the milk and bread I can find...