So, those studded snow tires are starting to look really nice. It took me an hour to traverse a distance that normally takes 15-20 minutes. The steep hill on Garden of the Gods, west of Union, normally takes me 30-45 seconds; I spent 15 minutes on that hill alone. Ambient traffic speed was so slow, my spedometer simply read somewhere between 0 and 5 MPH. Apparently the cause of that delay was someone who got stuck in a snowdrift and had to get towed out by a friendly pickup.

Good thing I left the house at 7:30 - I barely got to work in time. The parking lots are nearly empty and the boss isn’t here yet; I wonder if there’s some kind of snow-day policy nobody told me about?

I seriously question whether the road was plowed or not. It looked like it had been, but another inch fell after the fact. Once I got west of Centennial, it was like no plowing had ever been done and it was simply packed in. I was able to get as high as 30MPH on the way in. We’ll see who’s who and what’s what next week when I get my snow tires.