Last Week's Snow

Last week's crazy snow covered our front and back yard in three-foot drifts. Here's Elizabeth standing next to our retaining wall so you can see a cross-section!

While being in the city during a snowstorm has definite disadvantages (like moving your car to different snowed-in parking spots at 9pm and 8am two days in a row), there is a really neat aspect of community as well. Everyone is out shoveling together, and everyone is ready to help with starting cars, pushing stuck cars, digging out cars, etc.

On Saturday afternoon, Isaac took Elizabeth out wading through drifts that were taller than she is as they combed the neighborhood with shovels and sled looking for people to help. Others were out looking to help as well. Isn't that cool? How can we as Christians make that a more frequent occurrence instead of waiting for a blizzard as an excuse?

St. Paul absolutely made the right decision to cancel school on Monday and Tuesday. The regular roads were passable, but we didn't get plowed until Monday afternoon and the residential streets were all one-lane and terrible. There is no way a school bus could have gotten through. Even by Wednesday, roads were bad enough that Elizabeth's bus was 28 minutes late, and remained significantly late every morning that week.

I was semi-heartbroken that it was too cold to play in all that snow, and I'm looking forward to getting out in it soon. Until the next storm!