We have the easy choices

Thursday rolls in, draped in white, but docile compared to some of the bleaker weather predictions we heard yesterday.  Well, here in the Bothell/Lynnwood area, anyway.  Our little hilltop got about an inch or two of light snow. Just enough to brighten the place up with a fresh coat of reflective white, but not enough to pose any serious challenge.  And there is plenty of sun right now to take advantage of the surface specularity. It's purdy.

Since the College made the call last night to go with a late open, I didn't have to do the 4:00 AM shift this morning.  I had a leisurely start to the day, drove in to the campus to assess the roads, and all looks fine for the scheduled 10:00 start time today.  All of the major (and many of the side!) roads were scraped and quite passable, both in Bothell and Lynnwood.  Slick in places, to be sure, and I'm glad I drove Ruby-of-the-studded-tires instead of the Miata again today.  Common sense and good tires are all that is really required.  Some busses on snow routes, but most I saw appeared to be moving along just fine. 

We will have to keep an eye on possible late afternoon snow fall and dropping temps (if predictions hold true) to see about evening classes, but we'll be open today to greet those students who show up.

NPR on the radio again for today's drive in, sans iPod. Live reports from Libya were pretty much the whole story this morning.  So much unrest and so many lives disrupted, to an extent most of us really can't even imagine.  Stepping out of a building means getting shot at in the Libyan capital right now, as mercenaries patrol the streets. Puts our minor worries about driving on scraped streets in perspective, doesn't it.  We are fortunate, we have decisions to make that are not life and death, and we have options.  Many don't have even that today.