Oh, what a Night!

As it got dark last night, I realized that most of the storm would happen while it was dark. My imagination was working overtime all night.The storm started out in the afternoon and by nightfall it was roaring through our town. The wind sounded like a freight train... some of the time. I could hear tapping on the skylights above me. Little pellets of ice were in the mix. I kept turning on the yard lights, only to see the snow blowing every which way. Most of the time it was blowing in a horizontal fashion. The weather people kept interrupting TV shows....about every 15 min. We decided to go to bed and watch TV from there. The wind was getting worse and the weather guy was saying it was going to pick up after 9 pm like maybe 2-3 inches an hour. I saw some flashes of lightning to the north. We decided to turn out the light and the TV and try to go to sleep. We had a very restless night. I got up a couple of times to check outside...especially when I saw a huge flash in the sky. I don't know what that was, but it woke me up. I looked out the front door and saw the beginning of a big drift. It's going to be a job to get us shoveled out today.

The snow out the back was rippled and drifted across our big open yard. The woods has drifts all along the hill behind. I won't get back there anytime soon...so no pictures. The snow drifted up the windows on our deck. What a job that will be. We can be thankful that our power stayed on. There are so many worse off than we are. I just heard on the radio that there is a 12 foot drift on one of our country roads. Well, the worst of it is over and now the clean up begins. It looks like the sun is trying to peek out right now. I heard that the groundhog didn't see his shadow. Can Spring be far off?

Balisha

This afternoon...We were waiting for the guy we hired at the beginning of the winter, to come and plow us out. Joe was sort of antsy...didn't want the stuff to freeze in the below 0 temps tonight. We were both on our computers, when I heard something outside. I went and looked out the window and here was our little neighbor, Bryce, shoveling his way up our walk. The drifts were almost as tall as he was. I opened the door and told him to just do a little bit at a time...rest in between if he wanted. He told me that he would rather get on with it and finish. It was such a job for him. His cheeks were rosy and I could see his breath when he breathed. Joe got dressed and went out to start the snow blower...to help him out a bit and to get the snow that was blown up against the garage door. I really didn't want him to go out and do it...he has to take care of his back since having back surgery, but he just did his thing. When I looked out again, Bryce and his Dad were there, helping Joe. His Dad's machine broke down, so he finished up our driveway and then took our snow blower home...to do his. Thank God for our wonderful neighbors. Joe found out that he can operate the snow blower without hurting his back. He said, "If I can get through this...I can do anything." The guy we hired...never showed up. So, here we are all shoveled out and ready for what Mother Nature deals us.

Balisha