Figured this would be the best place to share our piece of the story of the Blizzard of 2011. There wasn't much comfort in the fact that many other states were hit in this one. The Tulsa area is not prepared to deal with 14-21" of snow at once! It is now Sunday and many residential streets, including our entire subdivision, remain unplowed. School is still cancelled for tomorrow (and I assume Tuesday), and we're expecting another 5-8" on Tuesday night into Wednesday. Quite a bit has melted between yesterday and today's balmy temperatures in the 30s, but the slush re-freezes every night into new ruts and bumps.
I have spent the past 6 days indoors, venturing out only once to forage for food at the emptiest (in terms of food, not people!) Wal-Mart I have ever seen. Took a pass on going to church this morning because I'm also nursing a nasty head cold. We've had some fun: lots of baking, crafting, playing a new board game we bought, plus plenty of other games, video games, movies, TV shows, and of course playing in the snow. Would have done more of that but it's mostly the fluffy, powdery stuff that doesn't make good snowballs. Work for me was closed for 3 days, and I chose to be the one to stay home on Friday. I have to admit that I am actually looking forward to going back to work tomorrow.
Not much of a chance for things to return to normal yet, as we're expecting that second storm to hit Tuesday night. Our poor kids are probably either going to lose their Spring Break or their first week of summer vacation to make up all of the snow days.
But enough whining. We have enough to eat, salaries that don't depend on getting into the office every day, a warm house and warm clothing, two vehicles that are still running at the moment, with a $12 tire patch job being the only repair we've needed so far. That's more than many folks around us can say right now. I pray that all of us will see the end of this mess soon!
