Let in Snow

All last week the weatherman predicted that we would have a bad storm come to the area on Thursday with at least an inch of ice and then 7-12 inches of snow.  We have already survived the Blizzard of 2009 and the weathermen were right on with their predictions, I thought we should prepare for the worst.  We stocked up on food that we could cook on the stovetop in case we lost power, had the snow shovel ready, ice melt and had a few movies on hand (details to follow in a later post).

Wednesday it was 60 degrees, but Thursday was a different story!  It was in the low the 30's and the north wind was blowing!  It started raining and sleeting, then it started freezing rain.  I left work about 2 hours early before the roads got to bad.  Later in the evening it was still freezing rain, but no snow, so I set my alarm to get up at regular time. 

Friday morning I got up and looked outside and it looks exactly like it did Thursday: the hedges and grass were frozen, but the streets lookd to be just wet.  So I got ready for work, but decided to wait until it was light out to go because of black ice.  Josh went to work and made it fine, but told me to take it easy and come home before it started snowing too heavily.  So I bundled up and let Fenway out one last time.  That is when I decided to stay at home.  It was pouring rain and freezing on contact.  It wasn't worth risking it for 3 hours of work. 

An hour later Josh came home (because no one else came into work) and said that the roads were getting pretty slick.  So it was a good thing that I didn't go.  It started to snow before11 that morning and snowed until about 7 pm.  All in all we got about 1/2 inch of ice and 5 to 6 inches of snow!! We didn't lose power thankfully and the snow was very pretty, not the violent stuff we had during the Blizzard of 2009.  It was actaully pretty enjoyable, we got to relax and watch the snow fall!

Our poor iced over tree (which already needed replacing, but there is not much hope now)

Icicles hanging off the mailbox

Roof shot

Fenway wearing the coat that my grandma made her (note: she doesn't wear this all the time, but I had to bust it out), plus when she goes out to play she gets covered in snow)

Fenway playing in the snow

Fenway and I in the snow

Josh and Fenway in the snow