Weekly Wrap Up - The Snowy One

The weekend was lovely, in the 70's.  Then Sunday night/Monday morning between 3am and 5am our temperatures took a nose dive into the 20's and by late Monday morning our area was blanketed under 9-10 inches of heavy, wet snow.

Olivia was still house sitting, she was supposed to leave Monday morning and head to work and come home that night.  Unfortunately, she got snowed in and didn't make it to work, or home.  Tom had the day off as a holiday, so it didn't affect him.   Mid-morning a driver with "issues" came up the street, in a 2 wheel drive pickup truck.  He'd not bothered to clear his windshield off before he started driving, and was either intoxicated or in some way mentally impaired.  He hit two vehicles down the street before making it through the intersection and onto our block.  He sideswiped our van and then plowed into a snow bank and got stuck.  He then proceeded to sit there and mash the gas pedal to the floor in an attempt to just keep driving.  He had smoke just rolling off his tires and filling the neighborhood with the nastiest smell.  It was quite the display.  Several police officers responded, and had his car towed away. It had to be towed, as he literally wore the tread off his back tires and got all the way into the steel belts.   He was charged with several counts of hit and run and ordered to go for a medical evaluation.   The rest of the day was a bit more uneventful.

Lindsey started back to school. She didn't have anywhere to babysit since the one family tested positive for covid and the other family is a teacher and everyone was out of school for a snow day.  

Tuesday morning, Tom and I got up early and made the trek out to where Olivia was staying.  She's never driven in snow, and we weren't sure what the roads would be like out her way, and from there to her job.  Tom dropped me off at the bottom of the driveway and I made the trek up the hill.  Olivia had cleaned her car off the day before and got a little path cleared around it.  Coming down the driveway wasn't bad even though it's a little steep.  Roads weren't horrible, but I drove her to work and Tom picked me up there.  The roads were all totally clear by mid-morning.  Tom went back to work in the afternoon, after being off from December 20.  The girls went to jiu-jitsu in the evening.

Wednesday morning Lindsey was up early and off to work.  Everything returned to normal schedule including church services in the evening.  

Thursday was pretty much a repeat of Wednesday.  The girls went to jiu-jitsu in the evening, and got home just before the next round of snow started.  Tom was able to get home from work with no problems.

Friday morning we woke to temperatures in the low teens and about 3 inches of new snow.  Nobody had to be at work (except Tom in the afternoon) so everyone slept in, except me.  I was still up before 6:30am.  This was the powdery kind of snow.  The cold temps make it turn to ice, so it was a bit slicker than expected.

Have a great weekend!