Storm of the Century

Living east of Lake Michigan we are used to what can be days on end of fluffy snow.  The snow storm of this past week was well forecasted.  At work we cancelled Wednesday deliveries.  If we would be open, there was plenty of work in the warehouse.  At 10pm Tuesday it was decided we would be closed on Wednesday and we started calling employees.  That was the decision of the majority of businesses in the area, and I believe it truly speeded up the clearing process on the major and secondary roads.  The county cleared our subdivision the second day.  THAT was a first.  We usually don't see a plow in here for three or four days afterwards.

I am able to work from home, so after sleeping in beyond the normal 6am and actually having a week day breakfast with the hubby, I logged in and started working at about 8am.  I heard the snow blower start up about 9am.  I share our snow blower with the neighbors.  He'll clear our driveway and then go do his.  Can't complain with that arrangement, eh?  I'll do theirs if I know they are running the kids here and there.

Around 10am I could still hear him out there, so I bundled up and went out with the shovel to clear the walkway.  There was a drift in front of the garage about three feet high.  John said it was a good four feet in the middle when he started to tackle it.  In that hour he had two passes the length of the drive, about four feet cleared around the drift and the front of the garage door with about haflt of the drift left to be moved. 

We were still talking when the mail lady came up the street to the west of us in her little jeep like vehicle and started to get stuck.  John and another neighbor went over an helped push her out.  I could hear them both tell her that she needed to call it a day.  No one really needed junk mail that bad. 

I finished moving the snow drift and created a path the width of the car down the rest of the drive.  Later in the afternoon the sun was out.  Another neighbor came over with a big a$$ snow blower and cleared the what snow had fallen since John and I worked on it, and all of what we had left untouched.  I baked some cookies and took them over as a thank you.  Me and baking - yeah, that'll be another blog.  All in all, the final count was 12" of snow.  Ten miles to the east had 18".