Monday, March 16th - okay, Mother Nature, enough all ready!

Conditions at 6:30 am: same as the last 24 hours - high winds and blowing snow. Temperature -7' but the winds make it feel more like -17'
Expected later: -9' that will feel more like -19' . The up side is the sun is supposed to come out but the winds are still to continue. We won't be digging out of this for a while yet.

The weekend started out so great. Friday was a gorgeous day and ended with our semi- weekly pizza and

beer with Brenda and Bernie. Then Saturday also dawned with bright blue skies and lots of sunshine. When I was done work I met up with Brenda at her house for a ski down in the woods. What a gorgeous day it was to be out on the trails. We went down to the river, along the edge and back over to the creek by the shop and then back home. It was so nice to be out enjoying such a glorious day. We kind of figured we wouldn't be out on Sunday and we were right.

The snow didn't start as early as predicted. Instead it was just starting when we woke up Sunday morning and that was it for the day and night. High winds and snow all day and night long. I haven't heard of any power outages as yet but I can't imagine there wouldn't be some. The bridge is closed to all traffic and the plows were pulled off the roads yesterday around 4:30 pm. They've since gone back on this morning around 6:30 but only on the main roads so there's no rush for me to get dressed and ready for work.

It's a really strange storm. When I looked out last night, the snow was quickly overtaking Lloyd's truck. Now this morning it's all blown off.  It may have changed direction but it certainly hasn't slowed down very much. But it's all good.  We have food and water, wood and power, Neflix and likely the day off. Really, does it get any better?  As long as it's all cleared away by tomorrow at 5:00 when Brenda heads out west.
I see where my work has delayed opening till 10:00 but until the plows get to the side roads, I won't be going anywhere.We'll take a walk down when it gets daylight and see just how much is there.

What a difference 24 hours can make