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Sunday, 12 March 2006
White stuff ::
After work Friday I met Justin in Campbell for dinner. Around 10 I started towards home. It was raining hard. I considered taking US 101 home to Belmont—it’s slightly shorter when traffic isn’t an issue—but decided to stick with my usual routine of taking I-280. Around Redwood City, I saw flashing police lights ahead. Was someone getting pulled over? No, the officer was just driving at the same speed as everyone else but with his flashing lights on. Then traffic slowed as we started up the hill towards Crystal Springs. The officer was weaving across all four lanes of the freeway and slowing down. There were some flares in the road. An accident? Closing all four lanes?!
Then I saw the snow on the road. There was less than half an inch, but it was enough to bring four lanes of traffic to a crawl. I’ve seen snow on the mountains and occasionally up on Skyline, but never more than a few flakes down this close to sea level. From Google Earth I’d say it snowed as low as 450 feet (the last little vista point before the I-280 / CA-92 interchange). I was strangely happy to see and even be driving in it. But perhaps I was smug at the thought of the poor Californians freaking out to be driving in this tiny little bit of snow.
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