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Yesterday morning: spent over hour stopping traffic on a flooded road (with cold rain still coming down) before the PD got someone with strobes and a badge to close said road.
Got to the office, listened to the morning National Weather Service conference call, realized that the forecast had not gotten any better and Lexington was still due for about a foot of snow.
Shortly thereafter, got tapped for the night watch shift in the EOC. Went home around 11, ate, tried unsuccessfully to sleep.
Was completely fine all night. Well, had a bit of doziness around 0400, but I don't think I actually passed out at my desk and my logs and the office social media accounts reveal no notable shenanigans.
Was on duty from 6 last night to 6:30 this morning. Briefed my relief, excavated the Subversaru, and clawed my way out of the PD parking lot. Ran about 30-35mph on New Circle, 25mph on surface roads. Saw about as many stranded vehicles as moving ones.
Got home shortly after 7, which was amazingly good considering the condition of the roads. Once I got off the Priority 1 and Priority 2 roads, the neighborhoods weren't plowed. Found several spots that were deeper than the Subversaru's ground clearance. Only had one bad moment, making the turn off the last P1 main artery onto the first surface street, when a 90º turn went to about 135º with a shimmy and some ass-shaking.
Ate breakfast, decompressed, went to bed around 9am - up for 27 hours. Woke up around noon, ate lunch, have since been absolutely useless.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elalyr is now excavating sidewalk and driveway. Will join her shortly.
I still feel like someone poured hot sand in my skull and it's trickling out my eye sockets. I love my job (never thought I'd say that) but I should have started doing this a decade ago when I was still young enough to not suffer for two days after an all-nighter.
Got to the office, listened to the morning National Weather Service conference call, realized that the forecast had not gotten any better and Lexington was still due for about a foot of snow.
Shortly thereafter, got tapped for the night watch shift in the EOC. Went home around 11, ate, tried unsuccessfully to sleep.
Was completely fine all night. Well, had a bit of doziness around 0400, but I don't think I actually passed out at my desk and my logs and the office social media accounts reveal no notable shenanigans.
Was on duty from 6 last night to 6:30 this morning. Briefed my relief, excavated the Subversaru, and clawed my way out of the PD parking lot. Ran about 30-35mph on New Circle, 25mph on surface roads. Saw about as many stranded vehicles as moving ones.
Got home shortly after 7, which was amazingly good considering the condition of the roads. Once I got off the Priority 1 and Priority 2 roads, the neighborhoods weren't plowed. Found several spots that were deeper than the Subversaru's ground clearance. Only had one bad moment, making the turn off the last P1 main artery onto the first surface street, when a 90º turn went to about 135º with a shimmy and some ass-shaking.
Ate breakfast, decompressed, went to bed around 9am - up for 27 hours. Woke up around noon, ate lunch, have since been absolutely useless.
elalyr is now excavating sidewalk and driveway. Will join her shortly.I still feel like someone poured hot sand in my skull and it's trickling out my eye sockets. I love my job (never thought I'd say that) but I should have started doing this a decade ago when I was still young enough to not suffer for two days after an all-nighter.