Happy Valentine's Day (Blizzard)
So lately blogger/my computer is letting publish comments, but not sign in. It was a long process to get to the point where I can write. Anyway...
So on Valentine's day we had some crazy weather. Actually, it started Tuesday night with lots of snow. Then around 8:30 that night it started with the sleet and freezing rain, which was weird since it was only about 10 degrees. You'd think at that temperature it would just be snow, but whatever. Anyway, the sleet carried on for awhile... pretty much all night and into the morning, then around 10 in the morning we basically had a white out which lasted till about one. Then just regular snow. The snow plow would go down the parking lot and back up and where they had just plowed it would be full of snow again. So of course salt and gravel weren't gonna do the trick. So all afternoon the power was flicking off and on.
We got our car stuck when we were coming back from the cafeteria after lunch. We thought it would be good to keep moving it so that it wouldn't get snowed in. It didn't work. At 4:30 I walked home in the 40-50 mile per hour wind. With drifts up to my knees on the road to our house. What was nice was that the snow in front of our house was so hard that neither my footprints nor the car's tiretracks sink in more than half an inch.
At seven the power went off for real. Which was too bad because that's when Michael started walking home from school. And supper was almost ready. Fortunately it was only out for about an hour, so we didn't freeze to death without the heat.
So I opened up an MSN article about the storm and cleanup this morning and sure enough, it was posted from Hamburg. Yeah. That's where we live. They closed 50 miles of the interstate that runs through town. They had blackhawk helicoptors and hummers bringing people food and fuel for about two days.
I don't think I ever got my car stuck in Nebraska... And we really only got about eight inches. It was just the crazy combination of precipitation that made all the mess. At least we got the backhoe to get our car out and now we can drive again, they got the snow drifts off the road.
Too bad they don't close boarding school for snow.
So that was our craziness of late.
4 comments:
Crazy, I had no idea it was that bad down there . . .
hey--i'm glad you got the book and are reading it. is it good? i bet you are right about the ending. i'm also glad that you could read the post today. we think it's because shelli posted in pink. we will keep trying different colors to aid you in the reading process. we are adding to our friends list on the blog by people who comment (thus, people who read maybe) but i can't remember--do you rather we not link to you? i thought that's what it was for a while. so let me know. because we want to--unless you don't want us too...
sorry about the snow. we had bone-chilling cold for a while but it seems to have broken for today--melting. and i had just resolved to not have a bad attitude about it...
happy sabbath. and if you haven't heard from ben, today might be a good day to call him and encourage him...
I'd rather not be linked. Trying to fly under the BMA student radar. But thanks for thinking of me.
And I finished the book yesterday. I enjoyed it a lot and it made me think... maybe I'm not as bad of a teacher as I think I am, and maybe I can be better, and maybe I shouldn't quit yet.
Also, I just today realized that I changed my comment settings so that it doesn't have to be approved by me first. So I didn't see this till today and didn't call Ben on Friday, but I emailed him today. Sounds like it was a rough day.
Anyway... I don't know if you'll even read this. In case you do... here it is.
And yeah, the different colors help. I can read when they're in random colors. =)
i'm glad you liked the book and had those thoughts. i agreed with them. i wonder, will you get this comment? you can make blogger email you the comments if you want. i didn't get this one til just now :)
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