It's got to be pretty bad for us to use the word "hammered" in reference to the weather at our house (unlike Clink's home, our roads tend to stay in one place).
I think the time has come with this storm though. We're getting hammered (although so far the winter of 2010/11 was worse):
- We're now at feet of snow at the house; we're literally running out of room to which to snow blow the snow (it's nearly six feet deep with blown snow where I usually park).
- The internet and email are barely working at home (weather will do that) and down here at the office it's really slow too (pretty unusual for the weather to affect internet speed down here).
- I snow-blew the driveway for the fourth time in three days this morning.
- With a two-hour school delay I was able to get Tricia and two neighbor kids to school by 9:50. As we drove up, the principal was standing in heavily falling snow, at the school entrance, telling everyone that school was canceled for the day. School busses weren't making it to the school, so we picked up another kid ("Tricia's Gavin") from the market where the bus had stopped near Soulsbyville. All four kids are in my conference room waiting until I'm done with a few critical things here so I can get them home (I'm eating and waiting for Ellen to finish what I need to work on, so don't get smart about me posting here).
- Although it was snowing here in Sonora, that's finally stopped. For a while there was an inch of snow on the ground, semi-panicking the people who don't drive very high much.
Still, we've got plenty of available firewood, plenty of snow-blower gas, enough food and we love living on this mountain. Yeehaw
