Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Christmas Eve Blizzard '09

We had an interesting Christmas Eve this year in my part of the woods...we're calling it the Christmas Eve Blizzard of '09! I live in a state that has only had about a dozen white Christmas' in the last 100 years so this was exciting for us! It did mess up travel plans so many people did not get out to church or family on Christmas Eve but elected to remain home safe and sound. My part of the state averaged 6-12 inches of snow, which here is a HUGE amount of snow! We might only get 1 or 2 snow storms a year with an average of 1-2 inches of snow for the total year, so it was extremely unusual, but Fun!

Here's hubby digging out the sidewalk on Christmas day so we could walk to the car, although we didn't venture out all weekend.
Sent my youngest out to roll around in the snow and make snow angels. He got cold pretty quick though (I did not have good snow shoes for him to wear out there!), but he had fun while it lasted.
These are some of the drifts that pooled up between our house and garage. Not only did we have 6+ inches of snow, but the wind was blowing 60+ mph while it was snowing...that's why we don't have accurate counts of the snow.
I ran outside for all of 5 minutes with the camera to get the pictures and then I ran back inside since I am the only sane one in my family! I love snow, but it isn't as exciting to me since I was born and raised in North Dakota until I was 8. I remember those blizzards!
It was fun...now it's just cold!


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