Tunnel Vision

I mean really…what was I thinking, talking to snow, leaving with the famous last words of “Bring it on”. This…is what I ran into this morning on my way out the door.

{Incase you didnt catch that, that is snow…piled in front of the door}

Snow is in our weather forecast. Snow, for the next week, or so…depending. Which wouldnt be so bad…considering….

On our way home Sunday, traffic was at a crawling pace…cars in the ditches everywhere…you couldnt see but a few feet ahead…blizzard like weather.

A few weeks ago, we were hit with the “Freezing” temperatures…we hovered around “below 10″ for a few weeks, and then, this week, were hit with this. Which, if you cant tell…is snow.

I know…Alaska, deal with it, dont you LIVE in the snow 24/7? No. Not really. Infact, I dont particularly LIKE the snow. We deal with the rain, the rain is our thing. We measure rain in feet. But snow? We usually only get a few inches every year, unless you are talking about the year that we got buried under six + feet of it. But that was a few years ago. No, the part of Alaska we live in is rain forest country…not “Snow forest” country.

Late last week, we were told to expect a few inches of snow. That was late Thursday night, I believe. By Friday night we were covered in a foot or more of it…and told to prepare for rain. Of course…it continued to snow….and snow….and….snow. By Sunday afternoon, we were buried in 3+ feet of it….with more coming heavily. Blizzard like conditions, with cars in ditches, and power outages through out the town, all but one store was closed, and of course, there was a power line laying in the middle of the road.

But what did I expect, taunting it with words like “Bring it on” and “Im ready”?

Conditions only got worse over night, and because the state snow plow was broke, the roads were piling up fast with snow. Drive ways were like glaciers, and just because people seem to be their smartest when it snows…there were people of all sorts of makes, wandering around in the middle of the road, dodging cars, and such.

Today it died down some…and gave us a chance to catch up with it. We were left with approx 4 feet, depending on where you stand. The snow plow was fixed, but promptly went in the ditch, outside our house…where a cop, who was inspecting it, slipped, and landed on his back, if that can tell you anything about driving conditions.

Sorry people South of here…those of you who are dealing with the 5+ feet of snow, there isnt any good news coming from this way, atleast not yet.