Tonight’s entertainment: contemplating all possible meanings of “calm before the storm.” I’m of the opinion that a day without wind in BG is a harbinger of doom, and the good folks at the Weather Channel seem to be backing me up on that.
They’re predicting 2-4 inches of snow tonight, with a nice helping of sleet and freezing rain, followed by a 1/2 inch coating of ice. Oh, joy. Naturally, I have an exam at 8:30 am tomorrow, which I wasn’t thrilled about in the first place. It probably means I have to leave my apartment around 7:50 am, to give myself plenty of time to navigate the ice floes. It will still be snowing/sleeting/raining frogs and locusts until 3 or 4 pm, so it could be an interesting day of exams. I wonder what happens if there is a severe weather closing on an exam day? Probably they’d give us incompletes for the time being and have us take the exams after break. I don’t know what they’d do for graduating seniors, though.
On the bright side, if this was all happening a day later, I would probably be marooned somewhere. Again. (I have no desire to repeat the Thanksgiving airport debacle.) University housing closes at 10 am Saturday, and then I’m hopping on the Megabus. Seeing as my entire trip is in the path of this storm, having exams the last day was probably a blessing in disguise, because I would have been heading out tomorrow morning. Our winter storm warning lasts until 4 pm tomorrow afternoon, so I imagine the roads will be pretty clear by 11 on Saturday.
So we’re being pretty zen about it. Our friend Janelle is staying with us tonight since she commutes from Toledo and she’s worried about driving to her exams tomorrow. I’ve been studying for my sociology of the family exam and trying to winter storm-proof the apartment–I did the dishes, I did my laundry, I found my flashlight, I charged my cell phone, I filled up our water pitcher and tea kettle in case the power lines get coated with ice and the power gets knocked out.
