We've got some catching up to do
Family - fineMe - fine
In a couple of weeks I'll be headed to California for our yearly corporate get-together. Each year they treat us all to some fun event, ...two years ago we went to a huge arcade with fancy, team-based games, last year we had casino night, and this year we'll be going here for the night. Working for a west coast company certainly has its benefits.
I just got done shoveling in the rain. In all my years on Hoth I have never seen the sidewalks transformed into creekbeds lined with tall walls of snush (snow+slush). It was like I was shoveling mud out of a running river.
After dredging the creekbeds, I went to the alley behind my garage and found one big sheet of slush cake with snow icing on top and running stream of water underneath. After removing some of it, I realized that the slush was slowing down the water as it ran down the alley to sewers. Each time I cleared a small channel, water rushed through it. I could see what would happen if I left any obstruction in the alley, ...the water would slow, gel, and eventually freeze right in front of my garage door. And as every dad knows, the crippling fear of your child sliding out in front of a speeding steam roller is enough to make you stand in 4 inches of slush and water while heaving shovels full of back-breaking slush until the alley was dry enough for a beach party. Well, I might be exaggerating a little.
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