So . . . it was nippy this morning. -13 when I left home. Got in to work OK, started working . . . but then at around 11:00 we got an email that the water wasn't working. So at 11:05 we all got sent home (apparently it's a fire code thing because the sprinklers don't work.
Got on my bike and headed home. A water main outside of work burst and was in the process of dumping hundreds of gallons across the road. Unfortunately, this water was about two or three feet deep in parts of the road and a car got stuck in the middle of the road while trying to get through . . . blocking traffic up all the way back to my work. So, I shouldered my bike and walked across a couple lawns, reached a relatively dry part of the sidewalk, and gunned it through the spots where the road water was flooding across the sidewalk past all my co-workers. On the sidewalk the water was only about a foot and a half in the deepest places. Co-workers are probably still waiting to get out of there, poor guys.