SOC - Northwestern

Everything feels wrong today. Don't get me wrong – I'm still very much looking forward to a snow game tomorrow – but it doesn't feel like a Friday before a football game right now. Not at all. Not in any way.

First off, there's not a fire engine in the driveway right now, loaded up and ready to head out at 6:15 am. Yes, with the weight of the thing, we'd likely be able to get it out of Lot 31 if it snows eight inches (although that little hill over by Oak Street scares me). But driving it on the streets in a snowstorm? No way. First off, the reason the plates say it can't be driven in December, January, and February is to avoid driving it in snow. But also... to prevent this from being me at the intersection of Kirby and Neil:

Nobody has any idea how intimidating it is to drive that thing on a four-lane street like Kirby. In the snow? No chance.