Lousy Smarch Weather...
I'm like those guys, except for all the stuff with the bank.
One week removed from sunny skies and temperatures in the upper 70s, Wyoming has reverted back to its old nasty weather ways. Sub-freezing temps, wind chills down into the single digits, more snow the likes of which I wasn't expecting to deal with again until next winter, and worst of all - road closures. I'm posting this from my room at the Best Western Tower West Lodge in Gillette, Wyoming, where I am effectively stuck. (I've stayed here a couple of times before, and it's probably the strangest hotel I've ever seen. If I had a camera with me I could document some of its oddities, including the labyrinthine maze of a floorplan layout and the former hotel rooms converted into hallways. It's really something.) Anyway, the forecast looks bleak for now. See for yourself (closed roads in red)...
Most everything in the northeast part of the state is closed, which is where I'm stuck. I came up for a job on Wednesday and was supposed to be back in Casper the same afternoon. It's now Thursday afternoon and the severe weather warning is supposed to last until 6am Friday. We'll see how it goes, but for now it sucks.
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I'm surprised this post didn't also contain a list of various ways you've found to occupy yourself. But then again, I'm sure the answer to that question can only be satisfied by the word internet, to which you obviously have access.
The map of highway closures is impressive enough, but what is not impressive is the shape of Wyoming. It's just a big square. Since they're all roughly the same, it's in a three-way tie with Colorado (where you have also lived temporarily) and North Dakota as the lamest-shaped states in the union. New Mexico and Utah come in tied as runners-up, I'm none too fond of South Dakota, and Arizona is really pushing it. Basically, with the exception of a few states (e.g. Texas!), they really phoned in the districting of states west of the Mississippi River (though they did some pretty fancy work along the Idaho/Montana border).
That is all.
One thing that is strange about living in Wyoming (vs Texas) is that the shape IS so lame the state icon, I guess, is a cowboy on a horse. This is so weird because of course, in Texas, the image of the state of Texas is everywhere.
I just thought that was interesting.
That is funny. In my experience, most states use a silhouette of the state on their road signs. I guess Wyoming decided their state silhouette would be a serious design flaw, as would the ghostly watermark of Dick Cheney.
Please to be new blogging, please.
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