27/365 18 inches, Trapped plows, & Everyone walks.

The North East got hit with yet another winter storm. 

Most years I whine about not having boots, 

but quickly get over it.

Not this year. 

My street wasn't plowed until 10am this morning.

And then the plow got stuck. 

It was so serene seeing the entire street without a foot or tire mark in sight.

Yet, kinda creepy. 

For the first time since living here,

all the neighbors talked, and helped dig out. 

Finally the plows made it through,

but now our narrow dead end can barely fit one car driving up or down the hill.

So most people were walking.

Including me. 

14/365 More Ice, More Snow, & Still Cold

Today was Thomas' first day back to school since the storm. 

The snow is still piled way too high to notice any melt-age.

This morning, due to the snow,

 and a last speech therapy session for Collin,

all 5 of us had to venture out first thing in the morning.

It was brutally cold out there.

Just from the front door to the van,

had the boys complaining of cold hands and faces.

It didn't help the van took forever to warm up.

This is my view of the windshield

from the passenger seat. 

12/365 Cold, Snow, & Stuck Inside

It snowed. Again.

It snowed a lot. Again. 

30 fresh inches fell over the night of the 11th 

and well into late morning of the 12th.

School closed,

plows couldn't make it up the hill.

Neighbors shoveled out the circle

at our (dead) end of the street.

And the kids watched.

Together, without a fight,

with their hats on,

waiting to go out and play.