Snowed In!!!

 

 

This just in! Knee deep snow in Redmond! (Well, knee deep for a two-year-old, about 8 inches). The weather forecasters predicted a massive snow storm would hit us on Wednesday. So, they pre-emptively closed all the schools and everybody stayed indoors. And we waited. And waited. And nothing happened, practically no snow in Seattle or Redmond on Wednesday (very funny considering all the kids who stayed home from school). Then, unexpectedly, we woke up this morning to an amazing snow storm. I haven't seen snow like this in years, if ever. We got eight inches today and it's still falling. Our subdvision is a 2 mile drive up a road called Novelty Hill Road, so as you can imagine, the whole road is going up a hill. It's usually not a big deal, it's a wide, mostly straight road. This morning Mark tried to drive to work at 8:30am. After about 3 hours he finally made it the two miles down the hill. He spent most of that time trying to help other motorists who had gotten stuck on the road. So he got to the bottom of the hill to a Fred Meyer and then he bought some chains for his tires (and some boots in case he had to walk)and he drove back home because the road to work was closed. The weather is supposed to be clear on Saturday for our drive to Boise, hopefully the roads will be clear by then. We are really grateful that the storm didn't hit on Wednesday because BethAnne had a bad infection that wasn't responding well to oral antibiotics and we had to take her to the doctor. She got an antibiotic shot and is doing better now. I hope you all have a lovely week and a white Christmas (with well plowed roads).