Snow in Maryland

If you aren't aware, it never snows in Maryland.

HA HA!!

That is what they want you to believe!!! It snows all of the time, but we are so ill-prepared for it that you would think we lived in Jamaica.

And that is why 20 inches of snow in one night left me sleeping overnight in the ER. No, I didn't hurt myself. I work there. My shift ended at 3:30 am and I couldn't get out b/c it was still snowing and blowing hard and the plows don't make it to the side streets. I had to sleep in an empty patient room until 7am.

Which is when I was supposed to drive home and come back in 8 hours for a 12 hour shift... Now I hate to break from my usual appeasing polite self, but I requested (ahem, badgered) to work another 8 hours right then, rather than come back later.

I hate to be a pain in the read-end, but I'm a student with multiple schedules to balance and, well, there's that whole nursing shortage that all adds up to: Give in to me just this once. They did, but I still feel a little bad.

btw, helipads are great for measuring snowfall!