Hen23's Journal~Goodbye

[Henrietta23]

Glad you made it home safe Hen!

That is the thing with snowfall amounts are VERY hard to predict.

Most front wheel drives get around OK as long as you are not stupid about your driving. There are some days people just need to stay off of the roads.

Mostly Tanks you just take it easy, allow space between vehicles and tap the brakes instead of locking them up. YOU could do it easy. Lots of practice with sand and there is not much difference there.

Drifts can be a big problem for cars, however. Hubby had to take my 4x4 last night and tow my D1's Kia up her hilly driveway. She was stuck in a snow wallow at the base of the drive left by the snow plows.

Also ...
Welcome home again Hen. I COULD be working today, but my arthritis won't let me. My luck as soon as I am well it will snow.

Hey FF, sorry you're hurtin'!
I took my driver's test the morning after we got 18" of fresh snow. Interesting!! But I passed with flying colors.
My biggest problem is I really need new tires. But we just had to order oil so it will have to wait another month. Didn't plan well I'm afraid.
They're telling us we're between the band of 6-9" and the band of 9-12" and it may stop around 7am. We may have a delay only, we may have another snow day. I really don't care for delays. Especially when we will have a lot clean up to do before leaving. I end up tired before I even get in to school.

 

[Farmfresh]

Well a sortin' and a cleanin' you go again! At least YOU seem to accomplish something with all of thes days off!

I have been on my butt all day. UGH!

Hubby went to rescue D1 off of her snowy mountain again and we are going to the local cafe. At least that will give me a change of scenery. I a hobbling into work tomorrow. I made that decision in the shower today. Minutes later they called saying we have half day tomorrow.

 

[Henrietta23]

Second wave of snow hasn't made a showing yet. I get into this mind set that we're going to at least have a delay then it isn't snowing by bedtime and I get nervous that it isn't going to happen. Ah, wait, I just looked out at the street light. It may actually be starting back up.
The plows have finally been by.
We had a relaxing evening. I made a nice beef stew in the Dutch oven then we watched Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. DS is tucked into bed. The kitchen still needs to be cleaned up a bit but I'm ready to crash.
I'm really hoping that it's a snow day, not a delay. I might find my desk!

 

[Henrietta23]

We got, I dunno, 114 or so, more inches of snow last night. You can almost hear the house groaning. Okay well, you actually could at one point. The ceiling in the center hall cracked!! DH has been up in the attic and near as we can tell it's just the weight of the snow on the roof pushing down too hard on the joists etc. It's got to come off asap. So NOW he believes all those people who told him to get up there and rake the roof. He's frantically snow blowing the driveway so he can get out to True Value to get one. They've got 5 and they're holding one for him.
We've broken the record for snowiest month in recorded history in CT.To get out this morning we had to open the slider, shovel back out all the snow that fell in so we could close it again, the shovel out the other doors. There's quite a bit of drifting.
The custodian at school was actually arguing with me yesterday that we weren't even going to have a delay today. Should have bet him something....

 

[homesteadmomma]

Wow that does sound like a lot of snow this month. I love snow for about the first day and then it can leave and I will be happy.

 

[Henrietta23]

I guess I'd be happy with a fresh coating of it every other week or so. This is nuts.

 

[abifae]

I don't know if it is a real memory or one of my schizo ones...

BUT I remember being small and on the second floor of our house and the snow was hard packed to the window. So my brother and I bellied out the window to walk on it. I mostly remember my dad running in and grabbing me by the feet and yanking me in and I was very upset because I thought it was another world out there and I wanted to visit it.

Looking back, I imagine he was picturing me sinking down two stories and not being able to get out of the snow for 3 months til summer melted it LOL.

In Colorado, we normally get such dry snows that there is always roof damage after a wet snow. I remember a storm when 14 stores in Ft Collins caved in.

 

[BarredBuff]

DANG! We have 5 inches of heavy wet snow the power went out a few time yesterday PLUS some ice. This has been our roughest winter YET.

 

[Henrietta23]

Pictures coming soon. DH is home with his new toy, one of two roof snow rakes left in the state. Seriously, the news reported that NO ONE had them. He called the local Mom and Pop hardware place and they had 5. He got there to find they were down to 2 but he got one. He's assembling it as I type.

 

[TanksHill]

A Roof Snow rake?