White Christmas!

Well, friends, it is CRAZY snowy around here--certainly like nothing I have ever experienced before! It started snowing around 4 am and is still snowing and is expected to continue until tomorrow am. The airport is closed, the malls are closed, the roads are empty--it is like a ghost town! It is kind of fun but also kind of freaky to think we are stuck inside our house.

I left work about 1:30 and thankfully made it home in about 30 minutes with no drama. It took Jason about 2 hours to get home, and a block from our house he got the car stuck in a snowdrift. He walked home, and we changed into our ski clothes and set out to get the car. On our way out, our neighbor came home and got his car stuck in the alley right behind his house. We helped them get the car unstuck, and they in-turn helped us get our car unstuck. Yay for good neighbors!

the "before" picture--before we rescued the little car!

"after"--the car back home outside our house

So we have just been lazing around the house for the afternoon and evening. There is no work tomorrow, and we are off on Friday, so it will be a fun, long holiday weekend. I just hope we can get out of town! Thankfully we aren't flying anywhere--the airport is a mess and nothing is expected to start going out until tomorrow night at the earliest. Crazy!

Our neighbors--it is hard to tell in this picture but the snow is up to about their knees. This is in the alley behind our houses. One would think they alley might be protected by the houses, but it looks like the wind was blowing the snow right this way. It is unbelievable!