Amanda had to go into Valley to round on the OB patients. It’s pretty silly, especially since the rounds probably only take half-an-hour or whatever and start at 7am. She has a long way to drive for that short a period of time.
We were going to host an applicant dinner for Amanda’s residency program tonight, but she was alarmed about the road conditions on the way back from Valley this morning. So she axed the dinner idea, and the residency found an alternate location (Dave’s apartment). The roads probably cleared up, but they may have been nasty if any more precipitation fell. We are relatively far away from the University District where most of the applicants are staying. The roads around the house seemed fine, but the sidewalks were too icy to walk on.
I think a lot of people took the day off if they could. I believe Seattle schools were out. I tried to go to Mekong Rainier, an Asian grocery nearby, and it was mysteriously closed. I was talking with someone, and he said that the traffic was great, so I guess people just stayed off the roads.
Objectively speaking, the roads never seem all that bad around here. People just don’t know how to handle the weather. Or just don’t have all that much sense… like driving way too fast, going down snowy hills without proper tires/chains. Or my favorite that I saw yesterday… someone driving Z rated performance tires in a snow/hailstorm. Really, even here I think those would qualify as summer-only tires.
However, as one gets outside the city, the snowfall goes way up, so one would think a lot of people are used to snow. I guess those people aren’t driving in Seattle, though.
Amanda had to call her credit card company because of, according to them, suspicious activity on her account. They were freaked out about her clothing buying spree the other day. Funny. She also wanted me to apply for a similar card so that we can pool “reward points” and get this space age vaccuum cleaner that she has been lusting over. I guess I will look into that.