Jan 5th - SNOW!!!

We received our first substantial snowfall last night and today. It stopped snowing around 1:30PM, I'm not sure when it started but late last night. When I went out to put wood in the boiler this morning, around 8, we had 4.5". I haven't been out again. Kelsey had to be at work at 1 PM. She drove their 4WD truck and managed to make it up the driveway. She took extra clothes because she thought maybe she would not be able to get home tonight. Not because of the roads but because of other nurses who could not get to work.

Yesterday Kathy and I took our motor home up to Columbia for some repairs. After not making it up the driveway on my first attempt I worked on the drive for several hours and finally made it out. I knew if I didn't get out yesterday I probably wouldn't be able to get it out the rest of this week. I dumped about 20# of salt along the wheel tracks on the asphalt section of our drive and then spread used the tractor to take up 4 buckets of gravel. I used a shovel and spread the gravel where the duals would track, or it would have a lot more gravel. After letting things set for awhile I cleaned all the ice/snow off the asphalt so that I had a decent "head of steam" built up when I hit the packed snow and gravel at the upper section of the drive. I don't think I spun a tire on after that.

Kathy and Kesley took Lydia out to play in the snow some this morning, before it got to cold. Yesterday evening the temperature was still above 40 degrees at dark. It has dropped  constantly since then. It was 25 at midnight and now, at 2:30, it is 12. It is supposed to get down to -10 by tomorrow morning. I think -7 is the current record low.

I hooked our Wii up to our TV and just finished watching a movie on Netflix. I don't plan on leaving the house, except to fill up the boiler with wood at dark. I can't see any reason to get out in the cold. If necessary I think our AWD CR-V would make it to the road, but there is no reason for us to get out.

I think it may be time for a mid-afternoon nap. <grin>

Safe travels to all who have to get out on the roads in this weather. May God bless you and yours.