Well, today has been interesting. First off, we were late getting to Labor Ready this morning (hit some unusual traffic on the freeway) and we had already been replaced. So we left to do some shopping and go home. When we got home we found Labor Ready had tried calling us and had another assignment for us to flag in Orem. So we scooted back up to Provo in a snowstorm to pick up our "tickets". The forecast for today was a 40% chance of snow. We had seen a few flurries and a little "snizzle" but it didn't start to seriously snow until we were getting back in the car to go flagging. By the time we got to Provo there was about 1" accumulation and cars and trucks were sliding all over the place. Sure thankful for all wheel drive on the MDX! There was one 6-car incident along the right side of the freeway just before we got to Provo. Our assignment was at 400 South in Orem. We had flagged the RR crossing on 400 S last fall (it was the one near the Hawaiian Ice stand! Funny thing, no ice stand this time of year.). Just about the time we got set up an "on station" the PRC foreman came over to tell us the trucks weren't going to be running because of the slick roads and we were released. So we got "short hours" -- paid for 4 hours just for showing up. We found out that Lori knew they were shutting down while we were still driving from Labor Ready to the site but let us go ahead and check in so we'd get paid. So now we're home and the snow continues to come and go -- snow flurries are what was forecast for this afternoon. We may light a fire in the fireplace and watch a Redbox movie.
We don't know what is in store for tomorrow. If they get more snow, flagging opportunities may be limited.
We got an email from Mike with the URL for their new blog: Southworthit.blogspot.com. Check it out. I think Heidi has written most of it and she has done a wonderful job. I'm sure you'll all really enjoy it.
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