Saturday, January 30, 2010

1st "real" snow

So our only snow this winter was a light dusting during the night. Finally real snow! Still not a lot, about 2 inches, but it's still snowing :)

It makes me laugh how no one knows how to drive in snow here. The news is advising everyone not to leave their house... Oh no, not 4 inches expected!

You'd think people would have lived somewhere in their life where they had to learn to drive in snow...

(pic from our window)

Anyway, I'm excited. I like to watch it fall, and maybe I'll go catch some in my mouth. I have to go to work for a few hours so I guess I'll be risking my life as I venture out in this "Winter Storm, 2010." (So the news channels call it - in a horror movie announcer voice....)
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*Added later :)*
Jeremy and the car... so much snow right?

A few hours later... it had started raining a little, so it was probably a little more than this. But it made me laugh again how by noon we received several calls informing us that church was cancelled for tomorrow.

Ah, good times.

4 comments:

Mindy said...

That's funny. It makes me wonder the horror film they could make if everyone there was displaced to Iowa or Minnesota....yah, what if they saw someone driving on a frozen lake?!

Ruthie said...

Haha, yeah no kidding. I keep having flashbacks of tracting in winter snowstorms with horizontal snow in Ohio. People here think that if you have a truck and big wheels then you can drive like normal...thus the many cars off the sides of the roads.

Barbara said...

Seriously...there are people who have never ever driven in snow out here. (Chesapeake or NOVA) That's why I don't venture out...I can do it, but don't know about the guy next to me. ;) You must have been listening to WAVY 10. :) EVERYTHING is big DRAMA for them.
I also like how they call these gently falling flakes a 'blizzard'.

Kathryn said...

HAHA!! I get a kick out of it! I wish they would cancel everything out here in Utah! Brett said they got over a foot in Richmond and shut down the base. He didn't have to be at work until noon today, and that is the military!! You look great by the way! I hope we can meet him when we come back in March.