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Another Snow Day?

Posted: December 1, 2010 in Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, winter, work
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Well got up this morning to find yet another few inches of snow had fallen overnight. So what to do…hubby had hospital appointment at the other side of Glasgow this morning so we couldn’t attempt to get to work in one car. So do I try and drive to work, see if I can get a bus to work, or admit defeat and see if I can work from home again today?

End result…

I checked the First Bus website to see if the bus I needed to catch was running and it was, so that decided me…I’d forget the car (I’d have had to dig it out first and the roads still looked really bad), and walk to the nearest bus stop and try and get a bus to work. So at 7.50am wearing several layers of clothes, I left the house and headed to the bus stop.

…and so I waited for the bus that was due every 10/15 minutes…at 8.40am the bus arrived, quite busy but I still managed to get on. I heard a number of folk comment on the bus that the trains on our local routes had been cancelled, so that explained why the bus was much busier than usual.

After a reasonable journey, I arrived at my destination safe and sound…thank you First Bus! So no second “snow day” for me :(

My observations when I arrived at my destination were that the snow there was nothing like as deep as at was at our home…no wonder we ended up having a snow day yesterday!

Throughout the day we had some very heavy snow showers followed by some very bright sunshine, so a number of us kept checking the bus and train website to ensure our buses or trains were still running.

Thankfully my bus continued to run all day so at 4.15pm I left the office and managed to get a bus home within a few minutes. Result! I was home by 5.10pm which was great, as that’s earlier than I’m usually home from work.

I will reassess tomorrow morning if and how I’m going to travel to work based on the overnight weather and the roads conditions in the morning.

I hope you all manage to stay safe and warm this winter.

Snow Day

Posted: November 30, 2010 in Glasgow, Scotland, work
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heavy snow + overnight = unable to get to work!

…but I did work from home instead so it didn’t end up being a day off.

So for the first time ever in all my working days, I was unable to get to work due to the severe weather here.

Hubby and me decided to go to work in the one car today so that we would at least be together if there were any problems (our offices are quite close to each other so it’s quite easy for us to travel together).

So at about 8am after digging out the car (a good few inches had fallen overnight), we slowly made our way out of our estate to the main road. When we got to the main road we were confronted with solid traffic in both directions going virtually nowhere! Eventually we joined the queue of traffic on what felt like a skating rink underneath…very scary. So after about 40 mins of going about 30 yards we decided this was pointless, at least for the time being, so when we finally reached the first turn off, we turned and drove the few yards back to our house.

I phoned my office at this point to find neither my boss nor any of my team mates were in yet, but left a message to say we were struggling to get in but would give it another go in a wee while.

So about 9.45am we headed out again…it was still snowing heavily at this point…only to be met by one of our neighbours who informed us that the traffic outside our estate was still going nowhere and it was like that for miles around us. So we got to the exit of our estate, confirmed the traffic was still gridlocked and turned and went home again.

I managed to get my boss at this point, it had taken her a long time, but she’d made it into work eventually. I explained to her what the situation was like here and agreed with her I would work from home today.

Hubby on the other hand was determined to try and get to work today, so about 11.30am once the gridlock outside our estate seemed to have cleared a bit, he headed off to work. He got to work over an hour later (it usually takes about 20-25 minutes!). He informed me that the both the weather and the roads were a lot worse in our area than they were around our work, so seems we made the right decision not to travel this morning.

It snowed very heavily much of the day thereafter, so I was happy I decided to stay put and work from home. Although hubby got away early because of the weather so he was home around 5pm.

So my first snow day when I’ve been working…I could get used to this!

For those who did have to travel to/from work/appointments today, I hope you had a safe journey and got to your destination…even if it did take you longer than anticipated.

Stay safe and warm this winter.