Blizzard 2011

At the beginning of February, we had a blizzard come through that brought us 13 inches. The storm began late morning on a Tuesday and Illinois State closed down for the whole day fortunately. Dan's company closed at noon, so we were all able to hunker down at the house. The wind was absolutely crazy and it howled all night. It blew from the North and it was blowing so hard that we discovered two imperfections in our house. First, was with Jacob's window. When I went to get him from his nap Tuesday afternoon, I discovered a small pile of snow on his carpet below his window. Apparently his window has a crack in the window frame. The second was in the corner of our garage door. We had a rather large pile of snow INSIDE our garage! We've lived here 10 years and this was the first for both of those!!

We woke up Wednesday to 13 inches of snow and high drifts everywhere. The sun broke out shortly after breakfast and Dan worked hard on clearing our driveway and sidewalks. I switched with him during the kids' lunch because I was losing my mind with their behavior and needed a break. Jacob had just had an accident that was a mess to clean up and Bailey was in a mood which resulted in her entire plate of food being chucked all over the kitchen. Shoveling snow seemed much easier than the storm brewing in our house! By the time I got outside all of our neighbors were outside and it turned into a group effort helping each other dig out. It was great to see each other after months of hibernation.

We went back to work the next day and it was such an experience driving through town. It was like driving through tunnels and not every lane was fully plowed, so it was an adventure to say the least.

Here are lots of pictures from our blizzard.