February Blizzard!

The night before Valentine's Day, we had a snow storm that turned into a blizzard. The wind was so strong that when driving Lindsay's friend, Maizy, to her house which is just down the street, I could not see 5 feet in front of me. It also knocked the power out for about 8 hours. It took Dan over 2 hours to get home from work (it usually only takes 15 minutes) which is nothing compared to some of our neighbors, in which it took some of them 4-5 hours to get home. We had cold cereal for dinner and we snuggled the kids up in sleeping bags in their beds to keep them warm. The power came back on at about midnight, so we weren't freezing all night long. The following pictures are what we woke up to. The wind blew the snow up onto our windows and the way our driveway/garage sits, the wind blew the snow right up against our garage door. It took Dan almost an hour to clear out the snow so he could go to work (Happy Valentine's Day to Dan!) and that was even with the help of our neighbors snowblower. Anyhow, this storm made us realize how unprepared we are for a really big emergency. We later found out that the road that takes you out to Eagle Mountain was closed off for the night because of a 16 car pile-up, so people had to got to the nearby Smith's grocery store and Young's Family Dental for the night because they couldn't get home. So we had it easy compared to them.