Digging Out

This winter I've heard about a few major winter storms that have dropped over a foot of snow in places, and I will be honest-I was envious. I wanted a BIG storm with LOTS of snow. I was tired of small storms that left little new snow, but you have to shovel it anyways. I wanted a BIG snow storm.
This week my wish came true. We got a MAJOR snow storm with LOTS of snow. The snow started Tuesday morning, then Tuesday afternoon the wind pickup and we had blizzard conditions. By late evening the snow was piling up, and Wednesday morning when we woke up we were buried under more then a foot and a half of fresh white snow.

Monday Morning


Tuesday Late afternoon


Wednesday Morning



When Johann went out to snow blow the driveway off, the road had been plowed one time hours earlier, but just on our side. The snow on our driveway was 18" deep. Luckily for him his truck has 4-wheel drive and he could go to work. We were lucky too that our road had been somewhat plowed as many roads weren't plowed all day leaving people stuck in their houses.



Wednesday was pretty cold-mid teens, but that didn't stop the kids from playing out in the snow. Corrine made a very big snow fort with secret passages and shelves for snow artwork. Simeon, Aidan and Joe in the morning made a tunnel and small snow houses. In the afternoon when the kids went back out their forts started braking, so they made passages through the snow, then ended up in the backyard jumping off the stump into the snow.




Tuesday the kids got out 2 hour early because of the snow, Wednesday there was no school and Thursday we had a 2 hour late start. Thursdays the kids always get out at 2pm, so the kids had a total of 3.5 hours of school on Thursday, and it counted for a full day!
The school only had it's parking lot and front door cleared Thursday so the kids all had to be dropped off at the front door, bus kids were dropped off at the front driveway and had to walk through the parking lot to the front. We drove up and it took 20 minutes to drop them off and get out of the school. It was a HUGE mess. The afternoon was better, but the sidewalks still weren't cleared, but getting out was faster and orderly. After dropping the kids off at school Rebecca and I headed for the library. We ended up going home after driving around looking for a parking spot and never finding one. Then we saw a city bus get stuck on a snow bank turning the corner, and nearly flipping on it's side. We got some lunch since it was after 11:15 now, and on the way home saw a SUV that had rear ended a trash truck.
The main roads are mostly cleared. Alot of the side street are cleared, but narrow because of all the snow and having no where to put it.