Snow?!?!

The weather forecasters were saying we might have snow on Christmas day way before Christmas.  I really didn't believe it at first. After all, last year was the mildest winter and as a matter fact it is often warmer here than it is even in AL.  It started out as a few inches and by the day before Christmas they were forecasting 6-10 inches of snow for our area.  It became evident we were REALLY going to get snow!

Anyways, it came in the afternoon of Christmas Day. Thankfully, I was already scheduled to be off from work the next day and had planned to leave for AL 2 days after Christmas.  It started as freezing rain and turned to snow by about 5 pm that night.  In just a couple hours the snow was mounting up.  It ended up being 7 INCHES!! Unfortunately, Adam was scheduled to work the next day and it was unsafe to drive.  The manager was away and Adam was in charge. They ended up delaying opening until about 12:00 noon and ended up closing early about 4:30pm because they were getting little business and it was unsafe for them to be out after dark when every thing re-freezed. 

Anyway, the real kicker is we lost power about 3pm Christmas Day.  It finally came back on about 7pm the next night.  Because of this, it made for an interesting Christmas for us.  It quickly got cold and dark in our home.  The next day we did get out and take our groceries to an old neighbor's house to salvage some of them and got showers as well as got something hot to eat at Wendy's.  We were getting ready to go stay with Adam's boss the 2nd day the power was off and then if came back on.  We were so relieved!  

Also, on Thursday when we left to go to AL 70 East was still really bad from all the trees that fell from the winter storm in the road and slick roads.  The highway was down to one lane in a lot of areas due to these conditions. We made it safe though, but it was a LONG trip due to all the delays.

Needless to say, we were thankful for what we may consider the little things...