The sun is out shining full tilt - again - today. It was yesterday as well but the roads are still covered in snow and ice.  Local FB marketplace is full of people reporting horrid road conditions.  I fully expect that to start changing today as the temps rise. It's 28 degrees now at 9:00 am, another hour or so and it should be above the freezing level.  Now they are saying to watch out for giant icicles falling, lol.  

But I'm looking out the bedroom window at the street and it is still covered in snow.  A person posted a pic of 2 semi trucks crashed - one laid over on it's said and another jacknifed up against the center divider - posted in a trucking group.  Said they had just passed by him going ridiculous speed - 2 towns over from me.  The pic shows the trucks and the road - solid sheet of ice. 

This isn't driving conditions. This is stay home conditions, paychecks be damned.  I'm not going to be crashing into anything with highly flammable, potentially explosive, cryogenic liquid because some plant somewhere is demanding the stuff. Tough.  They could quadruple my pay and I would refuse to go anywhere until the roads are safe to do so - and right now, they are NOT.  Maybe, just maybe, this afternoon that will change.  By tomorrow definitely  But I'm very glad I stood my ground.  The reports keep coming in of I-20 closed, last night there were 5 places just in this area alone that it was shut down.  

Diverting traffic?  I dunno, but those side highways are even worse.  

So, another day at home and Lord only knows what's going to go on here with the current situation that isn't likely going to change -ever.  I reported about that yesterday.  I hold no ill will against either of them, it's just a very unfortunate situation that will change all of our lives.  I can't say I like it, but I can say it isn't the first time in my life that living situations have drastically changed over night.  What's going to change? Well one of them, obviously, is going to have to leave.  One of them will stay. Or both will leave and the house will be sold. I have no clue.  I think it's stay for one and the other leaves, tho, which I would prefer to stay even if it means upping my rent. 

It would be no different moving somewhere else and it wouldn't even make any sense.  Big house, decent sized property moving to a smaller house, smaller property at the same or higher rate?  I dunno how much equity is in this house for them to make anything off of selling it.  

I would prefer them to work it out. But this is the third time and you can only betray a person's trust so many times before that person declares enough, consequences be damned.  I know how this works, but the biggest losers in this scenario are young boys.  They will adapt, yes, but it's not going to be easy for them at first.  Confusion, fear, anger, lots of emotions, acting out, stuff like that.  Regardless, I'm making no plans to move anywhere - at the moment - until I see how this plays out.  I've already offered to up my ante in my living situation to keep this house.  Otherwise, I have to go find a new place to live, a place that allows large dogs and someone to care for my dogs while I'm off on the road.

That's a pretty tall order in a town with limited rentals as it stands.  I guess I'd just buy my own place instead, forget  the RV park for now for I would have to get a mortgage and that would cancel any further bank loans.  I would be relegated to either a tax sale auction - if I even had the money to do that - or owner financing.  This is a totally dire last resort type of thing that might even have me considering moving somewhere else.  But my mind tends to go down these rabbit trails, it's more of a "prepare thyself for come what may" type of thing than it is anything that may actually happen.  however, there are some properties with houses on them that have acreage out in the country.  I haven't seriously considered them for an RV park because of the price tag - a house and acreage isn't in the price range I am looking for but if I were going to live on the land that would present a totally different scenario. 

So, for sake of preparedness, I'll take a fresh look at properties online today.  I believe I'll be able to stay in this house - but that isn't guaranteed. Depends on if they can agree on everything.  Lawyers aren't absolutely necessary unless there is disagreement on who gets what and who gets control of kids or if they're splitting it 50-50 or what. That's none of my concern excepting the outcome will determine what I do next.  So yes, I have to at least be considering my options here.  

The job will keep me in this area.  I have never made so much money and I need to keep that going for a while until I get something else going.  Which is the continued focus of today after this entry and looking around at housing options: more hazmat tests.  I did as many as I could  yesterday until I got burned out on it and shut it off.  I was still missing some, but getting a lot more of the answers correct.  The motor vehicle departments will be closed today, not gonna bother even trying, I couldn't get to any of them anyway. I'd really like to get this license renewal behind me, but right now that's just not possible and I'm pretty sure I'll be back out on the road again in the next day or two, depending on if the roads clear up and if the plant is producing Ethylene again. 

Meanwhile, just heard that almost nothing in town is open today.  Why? Not because of the roads, but because the water pressure is too low to the point most businesses don't have any water pressure at all.  I'd like to get out of this house and go eat somewhere if the roads clear up enough to safely traverse.  If it isn't one thing, it's another.  There are a large number of underground water main breaks they are working to fix and