Snow Day in Reverse

When I've thought about weather and commuting, I've always thought that the winter weather would be at my house in the mountains and that people in South Carolina would find it hard to believe that I couldn't drive through the snow.  But today, there is enough snow in Spartanburg that my teaching day has moved to remote, while at my house, we've had no real snow.

Of course, I had been watching the winter storm approach.  It wasn't supposed to affect the upstate of South Carolina.  It was supposed to be the kind of odd storm that snowed on the coast but left the higher elevations of the state untouched.  The day was overcast but dry.

I was distracted by my dilated eyes, which made it hard for me to read anything.  But the good news is that my eyes are in fine shape--in fact, I think my eyes are healthier now than they have been in just about any other part of my life.  I am so impressed with the equipment at my eye doctor's office, and my gratitude about finding good medical care spills out to the rest of my life.

I had a great day teaching:  what a joy to talk about Louisa May Alcott and Little Women in my American Lit class.  I stayed on campus afterward for a Strategic Visioning meeting.  It was dry when the meeting started at 3, and when we left at 4:15, it was snowing.

In fact, it was snowing so much that I thought I might have miscalculated.  But the snow was the blowing, showery kind, not the icy, sticking-to-the-road kind, so I decided to see how far I could get.  There were moments driving north when I wondered if I was driving into a blizzard, and then I drove through it into moments of no snow at all.  By the time I got home, there were no more snowflakes that had been falling at 3:30 when my spouse texted me.  

By 6:45, Spartanburg Methodist College had decided to move to remote learning/work today.  I am fine with that; in fact, today's classes are easy to move to remote.  And because I don't have to commute, I can hop over to my local Lutheran church to do some quilting for Lutheran World Relief--hurrah!