Snow, Snow Go Away

Snow continues to fall here nearly every day. There was never a question of if we would have a white Christmas. December hasn't even passed and the snow is already piled up in our yard and in parking lots around town. We are running out of places to put the snow.

Our most recent storm with significant snowfall began on Christmas Day evening and continued into the next day. It first started out with pouring rain...yes, rain. How strange to look out and see all the monstrous snow piles, with rain coming down. The rain turned to huge snowflakes and didn't stop until 12 hours later. Terrible! The plows seemed like they didn't start clearing until the storm stopped, and by then they were playing catch-up.

They didn't start clearing neighborhoods until several hours after the storm stopped. And then the one plow in our neighborhood broke down. I think it just got exhausted (kind of like my back from shoveling) and quit. Here you can see the tired snowplow in the middle and another plow that came to check things out (get out on the road buddy, they're terrible and need clearing.)
After awhile they realized the tired old snowplow just wasn't going to start up again, so they left it in our neighborhood. Talk about the excitement, huh?
The one saving grace of it all? The storm came on the evening of December 25th and not the evening of December 24th. The storm really would have messed things up at church for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services. Thank you, Lord, for keeping the storm at bay.