Prior to Friday afternoon we were experiencing a fairly mild winter. Last winter was the mildest we've had in years. It was sort of freaky but nice to have a break from the frigid temps and snow. I was thinking this year might be the same but starting on Tuesday of last week they started predicting a doozy of a storm. I usually feel like a lot of our storms get hyped up and never live up to the billing but this one was all that and a bag of chips. By early Thursday evening just about every public and private school in Massachusetts was closed. Not to mention many of the colleges and universities. The university I work for opened but announced Thursday night we would close at noon on Friday. The storm wasn't expected to start until noon or later but there was a great fear that we would have a repeat scenario of a storm from 5 years ago. It was a fast moving storm that was bigger than projected. All the schools and a lot of employers released everyone at the same time, in the peak of the storm and my 35 minute commute took almost 4 hours. The governor didn't want a repeat of that so he took precautions to call a snow emergency prior to the snow falling and then he put a driving ban into effect so you couldn't be on the roads after 4:00p.m. on Friday so that the plows could do their work. They even closed the public transportation system at 3:30 on Friday. By the time I left work on Friday it was just starting to snow. When I went to sleep we probably had 5-6 inches and when I woke up it was close to 2 feet. I think when it was all over we got about 25 inches. As luck would have it, our snow blower stopped working part way through the clean up. Let's just say I got a very good work out. Thankfully our across the street neighbor has a plow and he plowed the end of the driveway(we have a very wide driveway) which saved us a couple of hours of shoveling. Gracie was thrilled by the snow and so excited to play in it. It was pretty as it was falling but I'm over it now and would just like it to melt!
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| Grace and cousin Meggie all bundled up |
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| Excited to go out in the snow |
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| From this angle it doesn't look like a lot of snow. because of the snow drifts we had some areas with no snow on the ground and some as high as 4 feet. |
