I made this cat meme and posted it to Facebook. It was epic and I wasn't wrong.
Here, we have to worry about the trees. If they get overloaded they will bend, snap and fall on people, houses and cars. That is the biggest anxiety we have living up here when we get extreme weather.
I didn't make this meme. I stole it off of Facebook.
That Friday we knew it was going to happen we just didn't know when exactly. Everyone heard early afternoon around 2 or 3. I wasn't really worried because my Escape drives pretty well in the snow. I just worried about everyone else driving around me and possibly hitting me. However, I was going over to Nicole's house for our February paint night anyway so I really didn't care if it snowed a little or a lot. I wasn't going to be in the rush hour traffic with everyone.
A lot of people left the building early. By 2, the place was a ghost town. I frantically tried to get everything done so maybe I could leave a little early from work. Two of the four of us in my unit left around 2:30. The snow started falling around 2. I got all of my stuff done so I left around 3. I told Nicole that I was leaving early and I would meet her at her house around 5 since that's when she got off work. In the meantime, I went to the cemetery, brushed off Grammie's headstone and visited for about a half hour. I made her a snowman.
Afterwards, I went over to Walmart and grabbed a few things...mostly to waste time until paint night.
We painted a kitchen piece with a lime in it. It was just three of us, Nicole, Lindsay and myself. We had fun and ate snacks. We were over there until about 7ish.
Nicole stressed to us before we left to call or text when we got home safely since there is a few inches of snow on the roads. I got home safely and texted everyone I got home. I found out later on that everyone who headed home on Henderson had a hard time getting up the hill and caused a lot of back ups. Haha, I didn't have to drive home at that time.
I got home and kept an eye out on how much it accumulated until I went to bed.
The next day we got up and it had snowed a lot.
Guess who doesn't have a snow shovel? Well, we've never really needed one because it doesn't snow that much here. All the stores were out of shovels...I tried several of them. I even had Ben try to get one from Lowes but we were unsuccessful. We had to suffice with brooms and a spade shovel.
Ben had to go to work at Lowes so we all went outside and brushed off all the vehicles and tried to get as much of the snow off the driveway as possible since we would be getting more that afternoon/evening.
It didn't help that our driveway had a slight uphill either. Ben ended up sliding down the hill after removing all the snow off the top of his car. I spent the day watching whatever was on Hulu, cleaning the house and doing laundry. Erika and I went outside and made some snowmen, sledding down our slight hill in the front yard and threw snowballs at her dog.
It snowed more that night.
The next morning Ben had to get up early and scrape snow (about 12 inches) off of his car so he could drive into Tenino for a 24 hour shift. I told him to be careful on the way there and to let me know when he got there safely. I got up a little while later and spent most of the day hanging out in the living room watching TV and working on my blog. I had considered heading out to Hawks Prairie just for a drive in the snow and possibly stopping at the store to get a few things just in case we are stuck for a few more days. We had plenty of food but you just never know. I sat on that thought for a bit. About an hour later Doug called to ask if I could take Jenn to the store. I suppose I guess. I cleaned off the Escape and headed to their house. My Escape handled the roads very well. I can't believe some of the vehicles that were out driving around in the snow.
We get to Walmart and just made a parking spot since you couldn't see the lines. We went inside and I noticed the weirdest stuff that they were completely out of. Bananas, eggs and hamburger. I would have figured the bread, milk, cheese and soups would be gone. At least once a day something surprises me.
Jenn was done so we headed to the checkout and paid for our stuff. We pushed the cart through the slush out to the Escape. It was entertaining. I dropped her off and headed home. We relaxed the rest of the day. I got a notification later on that evening stating that the L&I building was going to be closed so I didn't have to go to work.
Monday morning we saw it had snowed more over the course of the night. All together it snowed 17inches. In some places around Thurston county it snowed almost 20 inches. Insane! I really didn't know what we were going to do today since I didn't have to go to work but I did take advantage of a free paid day by sleeping in. We made breakfast and watched some shows. We noticed that the weather was getting warmer and the snow had stopped. It actually started raining. The snow outside was turning into slush and large puddles.
Early afternoon my brother called and asked if I could take him to the store because he couldn't get his car out of the garage. Probably just as well because he wouldn't gotten very far. We all headed over and got him. We drove through the slush and to Walmart. The same thing applied, we just made our own parking spot because we couldn't see the lines. I found it weird that Doug wanted to go to the store even though I took Jenn the day before. Oh well. It got us out of the house for the day.
Everyone got their shopping in. This time there weren't any empty shelves because the trucks had been here this morning. There were plenty of bananas, eggs and hamburger. I just laughed. We took Doug back home and spent the rest of the day just relaxing.
I got back onto L&I's website and saw that because of the damage to the building by the snow we were going to have late starts on Tuesday and Wednesday. That meant I needed to be in the building by 10 a.m. This work week ended up being really weird. I didn't have hardly any calls, which was nice, not very many reviews because I'm sure the people we get our reviews from and a lot of the provider's offices were closed or had very limited staff. It was overall a pretty simple week except for Tuesday's slush drive to work. That was interesting.
I enjoyed having the snow this year and I hope we get a lot next winter. This time we have a snow shovel.
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