Drove to work this morning in rain, less than an hour later with lighting and thunder the snow started. Electricity blinked. One woman, who's husband is a youth minister had a bolt of lighting strike not far from him as he was driving. He said he saw a white blinding flash and the song on the radio was 'Heaven's calling your name."

By 3 most depts were quickly if not totally being abandoned. So at 3.30 after doing a quick headcount of who was there and who wasn't, I left. The drive home wasn't that bad. Wet with slush at the curbs. The only problem I had was the only overpass I drive over. I take the interstate to work and backroads home. The evening traffic is scary on the interstate and the entrance ramp quickly becomes a exit only lane to the turnpike and traffic can't/won't get over a lane to let you in. So I do avoid that at 5.

Woke up this morning at 7.30. Of course it was with a great flurry of activity that I managed to get out the door and to work by 8.07. Forgot my mittens and hat too. Figured I'd have to scrap ice after work since I knew the rain would turn to snow, but nope. Just lots of heavy wet snow to brush off and have it land in splatters around my boots.

I'm not sure of the weather so don't know if I'll go home tomorrow or Christmas day. The gifts I bought were $30 gift certificates for Mom, Dad and my brother. Mom and Dad's were for Barnes and Noble. My brothers is for Sam Goody music. Since I'm a zoo member I got 25% off at the gift shop for Dec, so I bought my dad an Austrailian bush hat that snaps on the left side, and mom a meercat plush. She loves meercats. And I also bought myself one of thos bush hats too since they were $11 after the discount.

Then I mentioned the hat to mom, she said dad already had one. So unless Cam wants it, I may give it to Rex. Last month Rex took me to an abandoned house on some land his dad owns. I took some pictures for him. So I had 3 of his favorites enlarged and bought frames for them. He has this thing with old doors, so the trio of pics are of the doors he had me photograph. One of them didn't come out all that great since the light was a bit low, but it looks good.