Waiting
The snow is set to start falling in another few hours, we're supposed to get hit pretty hard too. The last storm after the ice debacle dumped about six inches on the town prompting us to get called out for everything from a doctor's appointment to several roll overs.
Today I'm sitting at Station 2, my usual assigned house and waiting for the fun to start. It's bitterly cold out, just around 10 degrees and the sky was bright red on my drive in this morning. I grew up on the water down in Rhode Island so the old adage "Red sky at night, sailor's delight, red sky in morning, sailor taking warning" is never far from my mind.
And whenever it does snow, people tend to panic, 911 is dialed more frequently and what people would normally consider no big deal becomes a life threatening event. I don't mind though, I am paid to respond to calls and thankfully everything I have had to deal with since the ice storm came through has been fairly minor.
A frequent flyer with advanced end stage global cancer needed to be taken into the emergency room because he was too weak to stand and his muscles were sore.
A snow plow operator rolled his personal vehicle and suffered no injury, the car was even in such good shape that he wanted to drive it off once it was righted.
A seventeen year old girl somehow lost control of her car and slammed into a teacher's vehicle. Both cars were totaled but the drivers were seatbelted so both claimed no injuries. The longest part of the call was waiting around with the state troopers for the tow trucks to clear the road.
But now we wait, already a few residents have stopped into request that we check up on their neighbors should we lose power again. A good deal of people have just flat out left the town and went to hotels in the city so as to be away from the area when the storm hits.
On another note I did polish my boots, I've yet to try Mike's remedy of baking soda but tomorrow begins my five off so who knows?
Today I'm sitting at Station 2, my usual assigned house and waiting for the fun to start. It's bitterly cold out, just around 10 degrees and the sky was bright red on my drive in this morning. I grew up on the water down in Rhode Island so the old adage "Red sky at night, sailor's delight, red sky in morning, sailor taking warning" is never far from my mind.
And whenever it does snow, people tend to panic, 911 is dialed more frequently and what people would normally consider no big deal becomes a life threatening event. I don't mind though, I am paid to respond to calls and thankfully everything I have had to deal with since the ice storm came through has been fairly minor.
A frequent flyer with advanced end stage global cancer needed to be taken into the emergency room because he was too weak to stand and his muscles were sore.
A snow plow operator rolled his personal vehicle and suffered no injury, the car was even in such good shape that he wanted to drive it off once it was righted.
A seventeen year old girl somehow lost control of her car and slammed into a teacher's vehicle. Both cars were totaled but the drivers were seatbelted so both claimed no injuries. The longest part of the call was waiting around with the state troopers for the tow trucks to clear the road.
But now we wait, already a few residents have stopped into request that we check up on their neighbors should we lose power again. A good deal of people have just flat out left the town and went to hotels in the city so as to be away from the area when the storm hits.
On another note I did polish my boots, I've yet to try Mike's remedy of baking soda but tomorrow begins my five off so who knows?
posted by Nick Stabile at 8:32 AM
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