Snow storm not snowmagaddon 2.0. ....

 thank god.  Well it was only a matter of time.  This being Newfoundland and all.  We got our first snow storm of the season and I think it is here to stay.  The kids come home early yesterday and today they had a delayed opening.  So naturally my high schooler didn't go at all either day. lol 

The dog wouldn't take no for an answer when he asked to go out in the middle of the storm.  FYI he is a shih tzu that is trained to a litter box.  So no real need for him to go out.  But of course he wanted to.  He jumped out the back door when up past his belly in snow.  Then had the nerve to look at me saying help. lol So I had to lean out and not loose my balance and take him out of the snowbank lol .

I have a love hate relationship with snow.  I love the beauty of it when it is down or falling.  Love to take pictures.  But I don't like going out in it.  Only because once I get cold or wet I am not fit to talk too.  Plus the whole slipping and falling down. 

State of Emergancy...... long post fair warning

On January the 27th my city declared a state of emergency (SOE) for the first time in over a decade.  You see we had one hell of a snow storm.  Now where I live it isn't strange for us to have lots of snow.  We do after all have winter here on the rock. 

But mother nature was surely pissed at us for what ever reason because she dumped 93 cm's of snow on us in a 24 hour period.  At the same time for a 12 hour time frame we had very high winds, 130 plus gusts.  We had white outs with zero visibility.  The only silver lining is we didn't loose power.  Usually with such a storm we do.  

So by Saturday morning a SOE was in affect.  No one was aloud on the roads, no business where aloud to open.  Only city snow clearing workers where aloud out, trying to clean up the unending mess.  Everyone woke up to at least 6 foot snow banks or more.  To make matters worse we had a major snow storm just before Christmas and we got at least 30 cm's of snow then.  

Doctors and nurses where stranded at work with no relief for over 50 hours. Emergency vehicles where escorted to there distentions by snow plows and even then it was slow going.  One hospital emergency was bought in by snowmobile.  She delivered a health baby some time later.  What a story to tell to the child when he or she is older. 

On day 4 of the shut down they opened up temporarily, supermarkets and drugstores from 10 am to 9 pm.  So we could stock up on food and medications.  I thought for sure going to the stores would be madness under the circumstances but it wasn't, it felt like any other Saturday granted it was a Monday.   Busy but nothing like in the joining city where there was long line ups outside of the stores waiting to get in.  This went on till the city totally lifted the SOE Friday morning at 6 am.  

Of course all this time the kids where home from school and loving it.  Not that my daughter has set foot out the door since she left school on Thursday before the storm.  Only down side is she's in high school and missing a week of school work with exams coming up the following week wasn't a good thing.  But the school has since pushed back the exams a week so she will get her review time like planned.  What a relief.  

Considering once winter hits I hibernate and only go out when I have to.  I started to get cabin fever being stuck in.  Isn't that the way you can't do something and that is exactly what you want to do. lol 

The city is still cleaning up the snow, trucking it away.  Hoping they get to the sidewalks before the kids return to school on Monday.  

We haven't gotten any mail in all this time and of course I have 4 package due. But hoping to see them sometime next week. 

Hats off to all the city workers that haven't stopped clearing the streets and I hope we have seen the last of the snow for this winter season.  Talk of 5 to 15 mm's of rain Monday night.  Guess it is better then snow lol 

Holy snow storm batman....

What a snow storm we got last night and today.  Except for the kids where already out for Christmas break they would of gotten a snow day.  It was a two part snow storm.  First part started over night and stopped early morning but by late afternoon it started up again and didn't let up till the we hours of the morning.  We had a blizzard warning for over 12 hours because of the high winds.  We got  44 cm's of snow in total.   The city was shut down for the day, the government, the university's and the malls were all closed.  The buses weren't even running it was that bad on the roads.  The sidewalks at this point are nonexistent.  Not sure when they are going to get it all cleaned up.  The kids will be going back to school on Monday so I hope by then.