To Snow, Or Not to Snow....

Colin's Police Cruiser is Snowed In

...That was the question...

Yesterday was Colin's last day of preschool and was to be his Christmas Party. I was so disappointed when they cancelled school (we follow the local school district closures.) They were cancelling not because it was snowing but because forecasters said it would snow later in the day.

So, erring on the conservative side, we sat at home and baked cookies all day. And it warmed to a balmy 38 degrees during the day and the last traces of snow from over the weekend were completely gone. The roads were bone dry. No snow. Nada. Zero. Zilch! Even when I went to bed at 11 pm last night there was still no snow.

But "funny" thing happened in the middle of the night. The snow started falling in buckets, and it hasn't stopped yet. No school today, of course, and stranded motorists are everywhere! It's kind of pretty to watch from home, but the only problem is that Matt has my 2 wheel drive car at the airport and his flight returns in a few hours. Hmmmm. I took the truck in case I needed it in getting Colin from school yesterday and it looks like he's the one in need of his 4x4 truck to get home from the airport. Murphy's Law, you know.

It's hard to explain to outsiders how just 2-4 inches of snow can shut a city down. I grew up in parts of Texas that could easily have 2 feet of snow in a bad storm. Four inches of snow would have never closed school. Let me explain. In Texas, we had NO HILLS to navigate. Add to the cold weather a layer of ice under the snow and put your vehicle on a steep incline and see if you can even make it down the street (I live at the top of a hill in my subdivision...) Then, add to that a lack of snow removal equipment, as well as people who rarely drive in the snow, and you get one big mess. Really, it's the ice that makes it so scarey around here. Once you get going, the only thing to stop you going down the hill is your neighbors car or house. Doesn't sound like much fun to me, right?!