Historic Snow Storm
Wow, what a mad weather this has been! The snow stopped yesterday evening and this morning, the skies were brilliant blue. I would say that this time, the snow is more than the last one, about 28 plus inches. Normally, the snow plough trucks clean up our roads several times a day when it snows but it has been more than 24 hours and no sign of the ploughs. The tree next to our house cracked and fell on the neighbour’s house from the weight of the snow. The neighbour across of us was awoken at 1.30am because a tree fell on his deck and onto their picnic table. Fortunately, none of these trees fell through our roofs.
This is what our street/road looks like. There is no way out.
We had two power outages, one during the night on the first night of the snow. That lasted for six hours and when we got up, the house was freezing cold. Power came back on in the morning but it kept going on and off till finally, just as we sat down to dinner, the power went off for a longer period. James was terrified of the dark but luckily we had some candles which I bought as gifts. It turned out to be very cosy but we were getting concerned about the cold setting in. We started putting on our layers of coats and ugg boots. Luckily it lasted for 30 mins and we were able to enjoy James’ first attempt at making brownies on his own.
We are getting a bit concerned because on Tuesday and Wednesday, there is another snow fall predicted, this time, 8 inches. At this rate, we will be stuck indoors until Thursday! Am getting worried about the staples like milk, eggs and bread running out - now I know why there is a mad rush to get these at the stores!
Matt has no work tomorrow, a plus in all of this! The boys’ school will be cancelled tomorrow and Tuesday, which means they have run out of their snow days and the schools will be extending their school year, which effects our flights out of here back to Malaysia.