Groundhog Day

Lots of sunshine today so if Mr. Groundhog can tunnel up through the snow he will see his shadow. At 14 degrees outside, I decided I would stick to taking photos through the windows. Most of them are distorted by the screens, but you can get an idea of how much snow we got since late Saturday night. It fell steadily all day Sunday. Before Saturday night, we had small patches of snow with lots of grass showing.

Our church services were canceled. What I had in the freezer didn’t look too interesting, so we decided  to use my husband’s pickup truck in 4-wheel-drive mode around 11:30 a.m. to go to nearby Ruby Tuesday’s. U.S. Highway 30 is a main road, but even there the plows were having a hard time keeping up with the snowfall. Only 2-3 groups when we entered the restaurant, but a few more came in as we dined. On the way home, we noticed a police car with lights pulled to the side of the westbound lane. A pickup truck had gone off the side of the road into a ditch. About half a block further, in the eastbound lane, a woman in a small car had skidded into the median with all of the piled up plowed snow and was stuck. No way I would have driven a small car on that road. Ours was stuck in the garage anyway because there had been one pass of our road, but no plowing of the driveways and the plowed snow blocked the end of our drive.

 

 

We watched the first half of the Super Bowl and the half-time show, but then went to Downton Abbey. When Downton finished, we went back to see if the football game was over. There was less than 2 minutes to play. What a crazy ending. The fumbled ball caught by a Seahawk already on his back, a brawl. Can’t say I was sorry to have missed most of the second half.

We may get a bit more snow Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. I don’t know the official amount from yesterday; I would guess 8 inches, but the problem is that the winds picked up Sunday evening causing drifting. I like living in a place with 4 distinct seasons for the most part; a big snow storm is the part I don’t like. Fortunately, the forecast Friday looks good for travel. We are headed for Gulf Shores, Alabama and warmer weather.