So, last night I went to dinner and hung out with a friend. I left her house about 11:15 to head home (about a 15 minute drive). It had been snowing so I got in the car and drove carefully down the hill to the highway. Roads weren’t too bad although I was glad I had the winter tires on. (Oh yeah, I was driving my sister-in-laws Expedition because when I was leaving her car was parked behind mine and they didn’t want to get up to move it so they said to just take hers.) I got on the highway and was able to go about 40, for a while at least. Then the snow started coming down harder and harder and I had to go slower and slower. About half way home I was doing about 25 and wishing I’d stayed the night at my friends house.

I tell you in the year I’ve lived here (and the rest of my life too) I have NEVER seen it snow that hard. I’m sure it has snowed that hard in the past year but I was either asleep or gone or whatever, but it was coming down so stinking hard. I figured the highway was safer than the side streets because there is more traffic so the snow wouldn’t be too bad. I got off on a different exit to head home because that road is more heavily traveled. There were about five cars in the ditches on the highway and I saw four cars in ditches after I got off the highway. It was slow traveling but I’m very happy to say I got home safely with no scratches or SLIDING!!!! Only took me about 45 minutes to get here.

I’ve always said we live in the “California Pocket” of town. I’m even more convinced of that now. I was driving down our street and it was dumping hard…I was at one intersection and could barely see across to the other side of the intersection. When I stopped at the stop sign two blocks down the street from the house it was dumping but when I crossed that street it morphed into almost non-snow. I could see the road (there was at least 2 inches everywhere else) and could see in front of me. When I pulled in the driveway I could see the asphalt. So, I guess we really do live in the California Pocket of town. LOL

We got a couple inches here. The rest of town (where I was driving last night) got about six inches.

Here’s some pictures of our beautiful white front yard.

This is from December to show you some perspective on how much snow we got…look at the front fence and the tree.

That’s the car I drove last night that is supposed to be in the garage. My brother had already started cleaning it off. (I guess the doors are frozen shut right now so I’m kind of in a little bit of trouble.) But, there’s a reason it’s in the driveway. There was about that much snow on it last night when I came home and I was afraid that if I pulled it in the garage that would all melt (which it would have) and ice over the garage floor. So, I was trying to figure out what to do and when I got home the garage door wouldn’t open. So, I took that as a sign that I was supposed to leave it in the driveway. Plus, I was shaking so hard by then that I just wanted out of the car and in the house.
The truck, not such a great picture, doesn’t really show how much is on there.
And, this is one of the backyard taken by my 2 1/2 year old niece. Can’t really see the snow but wanted to share her photography skills.

Till later….