Snow - And More Snow

When I blogged here about the dusting of snow we received on Saturday, January 14, little did I know we were in for a WEEK of snow, ice, rain, and other such weather that is uncommon for the Seattle area. You probably heard about it on the news.

Fortunately we didn't have to go out in it much and could just observe it from our office window. Every day we commented that we thought we'd left this kind of weather back in Central Ohio. 

Sunday morning, January 15 - We woke up to about an inch of snow. When we drove to church, only about 5 minutes away, we were greeted with 4-5 inches of snow. The change of altitude between our house and the meetinghouse makes a big difference in amounts of snow. It snowed the whole time we were in church, adding several inches. The flakes were the big, beautiful, fluffy flakes. We've mentioned that not many people around here use umbrellas in the rain. Sunday they were using umbrellas in the snow! This palm tree isn't far from church. We drove home and pretty much stayed there all week. 

Mid week - more snow. You'll notice there aren't any tire tracks in the driveway. I don't think anyone left our complex in a car the first three or four days of the week. 

By Friday you could see footprints in the driveway. Late Friday and then Saturday people started driving out. Some got stuck on the driveway incline leading to the street. One man, from London (England that is) got stuck. He said he wasn't used to driving in the snow. 

Where were the snow plows and where were the people with shovels? Cities around here aren't equipped to deal with snow like Central Ohio is. The main streets around us were plowed - somewhat. The side streets were not. You can see that our driveway didn't get cleared. 

All in all, we were very fortunate. We did get a bit of the ice storm but not much. We did keep our power, except for an hour on Sunday the 15th.  Saturday it started raining and by Sunday, January 22 we could see the driveway and street again. 

This has been a good reminder to make sure our emergency plans and supplies are in place. Space and location call for adjustments to the supplies and plans we had in Worthington.