The big storm of 2010, or the "western wallop" as Al Roker has insisted on naming it, is upon us! We were hit with 3 waves of the storm, the smallest on Monday, the next on Tuesday night into Wednesday, and the biggest began Wednesday night and it is still going as I type at 5:20pm on Friday evening. I worked a full day on Tuesday, had a 2 hr. delay Wednesday and NAU was closed Thursday and Friday. Gore closed its plants on Thursday at noon through Friday evening; they haven't closed in over 20 years -- that should indicate the level of the storm. We haven't left our driveway in 2 days, but we've been reading reports of a number of collapsed and sloping roofs in town. The big one is a HUGE used book store called Bookman's and Jo Ann's Fabrics. The snow is supposed to let up tomorrow afternoon, so we are hoping to go out and get more groceries and survey the damage. I think we've been out to shovel on an average of 3x/day, getting lots of use out of the best investment of 2009, our snow blower. We only bought a baby snow blower, but luckily the retirees who live either side of us take pity on Jason and have helped us multiple times this week shovel the end of the driveway with their super-charged, big-gun snow blowers. Jason now dreams of being a retiree with a giant snow blower, waiting anxiously for the next snow to go out and rescue young, clueless shovelers like ourselves. Here is Jason with the snow blower...
HUGE snow piles at the end of our driveway...
Walk through the snow tunnel to the front door...
Backyard; the snow is over 1/2 way up the fence...
Not sure we'll get to our recycling bin anytime soon...
Even once the snow fall stops we won't be driving too far until next week, but we do hope to get out and use our new snow shoes this weekend. If the roads are as bad as they are now, we may be using them to get to the Circle K gas station to stock up on milk, bread and beef jerky.
Thankfully our electricity and dish TV are going strong. We're hoping to watch Conan's last night as host of The Tonight Show this evening.
Have a great weekend! XOXO
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