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So we're getting hammered with another winter storm, akin to the one that hit NE Ohio over Thanksgiving weekend. I was scheduled to work today from noon-5:00...at 9:30, I went out and shoveled a couple tire tracks in the driveway (our plow comes at his convenience, not ours) and at 10:30, Dad did the same because the tracks I'd shoveled were buried in snow. I left a little early for work, allowing for bad roads...the main road (Rt. 306) in my town was surprisingly not terrible. The next town up, the road got worse and the snow picked up. The town after that, the road was now a mere suggestion, cars were sliding all over (including mine) and visibility was down to almost nothing. I could see the taillights of the car in front of me and that was it.

I was debating if I should just turn around and go home. Yesterday, I was scheduled for the same time and was basically the "extra" person; SM worked all day, M (84 year old firecracker) worked 9:30-2:30 and one of the Ls came in at 2:00 and worked till closing. We didn't have 6 customers the entire time I was there, and I was actually allowed to leave 30 minutes early. I was thinking there'd probably be even less people in the store today, and I was assuming it'd be the same deal, so if I didn't come in, I don't think there would be only one person working at any given time. I got to the next main road (Rt. 422), where I would've turned right and...nope. That road wasn't any better, and getting to the town where I work would've meant going down, and then up, a MAJOR hill and then going down into town on narrow roads. Not happening. I called SM and regretfully told her I wasn't coming in today. She said the right things ("that's OK, stay safe, call me when you get home") but I've known her long enough to hear the anger in her tone.

I managed to make it home with only a few white-knuckle moments but what does it say about our society that I'm feeling guilty for not risking my life to go sell overpriced clothes to rich ladies who didn't need them (and probably wouldn't go out in this weather anyways)? I'm scheduled tomorrow from 9:30-4:30...hopefully the Lake Erie Snow Machine will have either turned down a setting or twelve or have turned off completely by then.