Snow Day :)

Although there was only 2 cm of snow on the ground at 9 last night, the kids where all praying for a snow day...me not so much. Around midnight, after watching a car slide in to the neighbours front yard, 4 wheel drives struggling to get up our hill and a transformer flash every time the wind blew hard, I was pretty sure their prayers would be answered....When we lost power around 3 am, by then there was 15 more cm and it was snowing hard, I was wondering how the heck Grant was going to get his car out of the driveway much less up the hill to be to work by 6:30 am.

The power was back on at 5 am, when Grant asked me to get the kids up to start shovelling. My kids were less than thrilled, but they did get up and kept their grumbling to a minimum. There was more than a foot on the driveway by then

It took the 4 of us an hour to shovel the car out and down just one side of the driveway, to the street. It was now snow/ raining and blowing hard....I was colder than at the polar bear swim....

Grant then got stuck at the end of the street, 20 more minutes of shoveling and pushing, he finally made it to the main road and made it to work....


It always amazes me how quickly the weather can change around here....4 hours later the sun was shining and it was 10 degrees warmer.....

The grader clearing the drifts the ploughs had made....metal scraping on concrete is such a lovely sound ;)

Alex and Dallyn had to take advantage of the snow day....

The rain is supposed to hit this afternoon and keep raining for more than a week so the white stuff won't last long.

***Official snow fall total for Courtenay, BC : 35 cm / 14 inches ***