Snowed In

More snow? It seems to be all I have to talk about. Yesterday's storm was pretty wild and worth mentioning considering that students spent the night stranded in several elementary schools (including ours), school buses with students ended up stuck in snow drifts for hours & all roads leading to Saratoga Springs were closed. Yes, it was a doozie.

I was on my way home from American Fork when Matt called to inform me that the storm was hitting hard. Where I was it wasn't even snowing. Ten minutes later and this is what the driving was like. I was just ahead of a bunch of wrecks and slide offs. I hear there were many. I wonder if it was because people are awesome like me and take pictures while they drive.

When I got home the wind was blowing snow everywhere. All of our windows were completely covered with snow. This was at about 6:00.
This is our flashlight container. Plenty of flashlights. No batteries. Darn. Good thing our 72-hour kits had working flashlights. We also had a light saber at full power. Unfortunately we only had one working weapon and three potential jedis. Draw your own conclusions on how that went.


We ate cold pizza (it makes me sick to think about it) by flashlight. I taught the kids how to run a flashlight strobe light which entertained us for a little while. We read stories and Matt set up an ipod movie before the kids went to bed.
Picture using the flash....
This is a little darker than it really was, but not by much:
The power didn't go back on until about midnight. I thought I turned the boy's bedroom lights off. Turns out the switch should be up not down. Or was it down not up? At least it only woke me. The temperature inside was down to 62 degrees. Not too bad. Now I am not a scientist or anything, but I think that Matt's repeated opening of the sliding door so that he could see outside may have cooled things down more than it would have been. I was getting cold though so I am glad the power came back when it did.

My attempt to video the goings on from our living room window with a commentary from Zack. You may be able to hear the wind whistling or the banging of something loud outside. Zack is talking about how our lights were flickering. This is before the power went out for good.




Today, the kids didn't get a full snow day, but school was delayed until 11:00. The road out to Eagle Mountain was closed all night & most of the morning. It took Matt 2 hours to drive to work because the roads were such a mess. The real kicker of this storm is that they didn't warn us. Usually they talk up big storms; the meteorologists are probably upset that they missed the opportunity. I thought we were going to get a little snow. St. George is looking really good right now!