March 2009 Blizzard

Well the blizzard arrived. I went into a meeting yesterday at 11:00 and it was partly sunny. I came out of the meeting at 12:45 and all heck had broken loose. It was a complete white out. The panic around the office set in. We had tickets to Disney on Ice and it was cancelled and if you still want to go you have to take your tickets to the box office and exchange for another day. That was kinda a bummer because we had really really good seats. the malls were closing down, all schools and even some banks. My friend Lisa who works with me also lives by me. We decided that we would leave together and follow each other home. We left the office and cleaned our cars off and headed home at 2:20pm. It usually takes about 20 minutes to get home. We arrived home yesterday at 4:25pm. Yes, that long in the freaking car!!!! It was so horrible. There were many people on the roads and the roads were a sheet of ice. We had to u turn about 2 times on the way home due to roads being closed or cars that were unable to make it up hills. I was lucky that I was in my SUV for the ride home yesterday!!! Our boss told us that he would call us all at 5am and let us know if we were to come to work or not. He called me this morning and told me that he contacted CDOT (he lives in Loveland works out of the Loveland office) and that the roads were clear and fine. I set off to discover the OPPOSITE. It was so horrible on the way to work but the good thing is that there was hardly anyone on the roads. I left the house at 6:10am and arrived to work at 7;15am. I did get scared when I slid into the curb, but nothing was damaged. I made it to work and so did everyone else and now it looks like the roads are clearing up! Guess that the ride home will be alot better AND we get to go to Disney on Ice!