Usually getting to work is a quite simple and reasonably short activity. I am currently on an assignment in Helsingborg, which is normally a 50-or-so minute trip by car from home. Not today though. My colleague picked me up at 08:15 (as usual) and we arrived in the office shortly after 11 (not quite as usual). During the close to three hours we spent a good deal of the time looking at the (rather dirty) back of a Danish truck. There was a truck with timber that had flipped over at the highway so a section of it was closed, and traffic was redirected to the countryside. Those roads are not designed for the traffic volume that hit them, so the driving pattern for us were that we drove (slowly) 50 to 100 metres, then stopped for a couple of minutes, then drove another 50-100 metres and so on. The reason for all this: snow.

Snow in itself is often not such a problem. It just takes some time until the roads are cleared from snow and then there is business as usual. But add some wind to that and the situation becomes quite different. The roads are cleared and an hour later they may very well be snow filled again, even if it doesn't snow very much anylonger.

I guess we might plan to leave the office slightly earlier than usual today. Just in case...