California girl does NOT do snow....

I was 12 minutes late to class today...Surprisingly there were still students there.  So I gave them 5 extra quiz points for being there, on the caveat that they get to explain today's lesson to the students who missed the class on Friday.  Which will be awesome because then they will really, really understand it!

But...I bought a heater last night.  I couldn't take the freezing cold in my apartment anymore, and it works great!  But this morning I woke up and there was snow.  It wasn't supposed to snow.  I am sure everyone got a hoot out of the California girl.  First I tried to brush the snow off my car, but that wasn't working, so I got my kitchen broom and started sweeping it off the car.  Only to discover there was ice.  (By the way - I went to fill my car up with gas last night, and couldn't get the cover to the gas tank open because it was frozen shut.  Fortunately the people at Costco were very nice and helped me get it open.)  I turned the car on and let it run for 15 minutes, but that didn't touch the ice on the windows.  And I don't yet have a scraper (that is on my list to buy today, along with new windshield wipers, as mine leave the window very smeary and impossible to see through).  After improvising other methods, I gave up and got some lukewarm water and with some practice managed to get the ice to melt without the new water refreezing.  (I also understand now why everyone leaves their windshield wipers sticking out from their car when they park.  So they don't freeze to the window.)  In the process I managed to bust my lip open so my face was bleeding and freezing!  This entire process took about 40 minutes, and I hopped in the car to leave and promptly left the cheese enchiladas I made for breakfast/lunch on the counter.  Sigh.  Made it to school and thought I would only be about 2 minutes late.  Oh wait.  I got stuck in the parking lot of doom.  Like the JC parking situation, but worse because of snow and mud.  Finally got back out and parked out by the football stadium.  Hoofed it in and made it to class only slipping a few times on ice.  The students said I looked CRAZY when I came in - face was bright red, my lip was still bleeding everywhere.  But they were really nice....one of the girls was like...Miss Schaefer, your face is bleeding.  I was like, still?  They were like - they don't really have snow and ice where you are from do they?  Noooo......
Lesson learned.  Either take the bus OR get up super early to get car cleaned off and get to campus really early to get decent parking.  Sigh.  California girl NOT sure about this snow thing.  Hopefully the rest of the day will go better....
These are just a few pics I got with my iPad quick this morning.  I will take some more today and try to get them posted...Don't be deceived, it looks like a light dusting on the car....it was actually 3-5 inches deep over the car.

Outside my front door....