The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. ~e.e. cummings

 

(Picture stolen from my friend's, Misty, FB. I'm a thief...but I didn't take one of the snow actually falling)

Yep, snow fell in the South Sunday night and on through yesterday. Not only is this the 2nd snow fall in 3 weeks (very rare), but we haven't had THIS kind of snow it years! To say that we Alabamians are so unprepared for snow is a complete understatement. There are no snow plows here..just good 'ol shovels. Who thinks about buying a snow shovel?? What about chains for your vehicle? Nope...not here!

The weather folks report a blizzard (by Southern standards means 1-2 inches)...schools close, businesses shut down in anticipation, the town goes crazy! Then NOTHING happens - or at least nothing happens that warrants the frenzy the news creates. So when the weather folks say we are going to get 8 inches of snow..not only do we laugh at them and roll our eyes...we (meaning "I") do nothing to get ready. I even parked my car in the garage instead of on the road in front of my house. Stupid weather folks!!

Low and behold..we got 8-9 inches of the white stuff, with 12" snow drifts in some places of my yard! I spent the day in the house wishing Rich was home to enjoy this sight with me! The hardest part about being snowed in is knowing that you can't get out. Whether I wanted to leave the house or not, I couldn't! Drove me crazy!!

So this morning I got up and got dressed for work. YES, WORK! I used up my vacation for R&R, didn't want to use up my 2 floating holidays and didn't have the vacation accrued yet to take today off. So...I tried getting out of my garage and up the driveway incline. No luck! I spent actual time....1 1/2 hours shoveling the driveway! Each scoop made me curse this deployment, curse the fact that I was stupid not to park on the road, curse the snow gods for this white plague! My back hurt, my feet were frozen and I knew I had severe hat-head from my toboggan. So much for the time spent on my hair earlier!

Alas, I dug my way through and out of the driveway! I no longer feel guilty about the time I didn't spend at the gym lately.

(This pictures was taken from my garage of the driveway. See it? Nope...neither do I).

Once I got off the little mountain that we live on it was smooth sailing all the way in to town. Tonight it will all freeze over!

Tomorrow is another story............

Stay warm!