We survived the Blizzard!!!

Well we got more of an ice storm than a blizzard. What an exciting day we have had. We woke up yesterday to a Blizzard Warning. So we promptly went to Wal-Mart and bought a few things. It was starting to rain and sleet when we went. By the time we left it was very icy! When we got home Joey went out to shovel some of the slush and was almost hit by a 10ft branch from out 80ft pine tree. So he promptly gave up on the shoveling and came in. We only lost a couple of branches. We did lose power Saturday evening at about 6 to midnight. Luckily we had the fireplace and the temperatures outside were only into the 20's. The whole city lost power. We were soooo lucky to get power back when we did. Everyone we knew were without power most of the day Sunday.

It was kind of neat to be in the dark. Scary at first because my first thought was what about heat. Luckily we had the fireplace and the temp in the house only dipped to 63. (Which was the temp we lived at last year pre-child). It was nice to sit in the house with candlelight and fireplace glow. It was nice and quiet minus the police scanner. :) Usually it gets on my nerves after hearing it on for hours but in this case it was nice to have. Hayden and Joey laid on the floor in front of the fireplace and I did sudoku by candlelight. Ok I would not be singing the praises about the quiet stillness of no power if we had lost power for longer than we did!!!!

When it was all said and done we had 3-4 inches of snow on top of 1 inch of ice. Which all turned to slush and muck Sunday. Let's hope the ice storm that they are predicting for Wednesday and Thursday does not bring the same fate.