We woke up this morning to rain. It was supposed to keep raining (with maybe a few snowflakes mixed in) until afternoon, when it would transition to snow and we would get a few inches. Wouldn't you know it, the clouds missed the weather report. (That's been happening a lot lately!) Ten minutes after Tim left for work to do some photocopying for tomorrow's 8 AM class, snow started pouring down out of the sky. And it kept pouring down for the next hour or so, at which point I got a call from Tim saying he was almost home, but couldn't get up the hill at the end of our street. After waiting for a while to see if a snowplow would come through, he parked his car where it was and walked the rest of the way home. He is very thankful for his new snow boots!
Just before Esther's nap a snowplow left the road looking pretty good, so while I put her down, Tim suited up and headed back down the street to see if he could move the car. He tells me that the wheels were spinning like mad on his way up the hill and he didn't know if he was going to make it, but in the end he did. Then he got stuck coming in our driveway, just in time to provide an obstacle for the garbage truck that was coming along behind him. And once that was taken care of, he still had to shovel the driveway in order to get the car into the garage. But it is now safely parked under cover, and we don't have to worry about getting up at some frigid hour of the morning to walk down the street and shovel the car out from behind a ridge of piled-up snow just so that Tim can get to work. (Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if he has late start tomorrow, but we won't know that until later tonight.)
I think we've already gotten the high end of the range of accumulation that was forecast, and it's still coming down. But, with the car safely put away and nowhere that we have to go...let it snow!
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