Philadelphia has a different outlook. This week we were hit with 2 big snow storms. The first one started on Friday. Before the snow even left the clouds, people were buying up all the milk, bread, eggs, and other end-of-the-world needs. Apparently the threat of two feet of snow is enough to keep you inside for months. The snow came over the weekend. I got Saturday off of work because Saxbys at Liberty Place didn't open. I spent the weekend inside and went to work on Monday.
School on Tuesday as usual with more threats of snow. Two more feet. On top of the mess that Philadelphia still hadn't completely cleaned up. Before 2:00 on Tuesday, my 3:30 class for Thursday was already canceled. It started snowing Tuesday night and around 7:00pm I got the official text message from Temple University stating that classes for Wednesday were canceled. That was great news except that I don't have classes on Wednesday. It did however, get me out of rehearsal. About an hour later my manager at Saxbys called and told me that we were not opening on Wednesday. A true snow day. I didn't have to work. I didn't have class. I didn't have rehearsal. I spent the day with Eddie, as he didn't go into work on account of SEPTA not running any buses during the storm.
While we were home watching every news channels extended coverage of the storm the Emergeny Alert system was used. You know, the one that's always interrupts you in the middle of your favorite show with "This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. This is just a test" with that awful buzzing sound. Yeah. Well, they used it for real yesterday. To let us all know that they were shutting down the major highways in town. Three major highways into/out of the city. Closed. Really?
Around 7:00 last night Temple sent out another text message/email/voice recording that classes were canceled for Thursday. Awesome. My 9:30 - 5:00 day was now free. So I slept to 11:00. A personal record since the school year started in September. It was glorious.
Temple is open as usual tomorrow. But that's fine with me as I only have one class at 1:00. And it's more of a meeting than a class. After that I have rehearsal until 6:00. Hopefully this is the end of the snow for a while. But I heard rumors of more next week. Maybe this time, Philly will be prepared.
In the meantime, Philly, enjoy the snow! Go sled down the Art Museum steps!
nice post.
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