For those of you who do not live on the east coast, the weekend before Christmas there was the great "blizzard of 2009." The area was foretasted to get around 24 inches of snow over Saturday and Sunday (which it did). Unfortunately, we were scheduled to drive to S.C. on that Saturday/Sunday so that we could have Christmas with D's Granny and his sister's family on Sunday. So thanks to weather alerts from Hazel, we decided on Friday afternoon that we needed to GO.
I am a last minute person, so as of Friday noon (when we decided to leave that night) I had nothing done other than most of the presents were wrapped. So in a flurry of activity we got all packed and loaded up and on the road by 7:30 - after our usual Friday night dinner of noodles and ice cream. We headed down 95 and by 8:00 it was snowing. It took us 5 hours to go the first 100 miles and then another 2.5 hours to go the last 120 miles to make it into NC and past all the snow! Driving on 95 was much harder than we thought. We just assumed that with all the traffic on the road, there would not be time for any accumulation - wrong. You could not see the lines on the road at all and you for sure could not go over about 30 mph. There were numerous cars that had slid off the road (yikes!) and a couple of times there were huge avalanche-like snow droppings where you could not see anything.
Thankfully one of our neighbors shoveled our sidewalk and walkways! D had to do a little shoveling so that he could have a place to put his car on the street. So I let the girls get into their snow bibs (so cute...even if I let them wear them over their PJ's) and play where he was shoveling. Hopefully there will be another snow this season so that the girls can really enjoy it.
I am a last minute person, so as of Friday noon (when we decided to leave that night) I had nothing done other than most of the presents were wrapped. So in a flurry of activity we got all packed and loaded up and on the road by 7:30 - after our usual Friday night dinner of noodles and ice cream. We headed down 95 and by 8:00 it was snowing. It took us 5 hours to go the first 100 miles and then another 2.5 hours to go the last 120 miles to make it into NC and past all the snow! Driving on 95 was much harder than we thought. We just assumed that with all the traffic on the road, there would not be time for any accumulation - wrong. You could not see the lines on the road at all and you for sure could not go over about 30 mph. There were numerous cars that had slid off the road (yikes!) and a couple of times there were huge avalanche-like snow droppings where you could not see anything.
Thankfully one of our neighbors shoveled our sidewalk and walkways! D had to do a little shoveling so that he could have a place to put his car on the street. So I let the girls get into their snow bibs (so cute...even if I let them wear them over their PJ's) and play where he was shoveling. Hopefully there will be another snow this season so that the girls can really enjoy it.
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Brave little gals. Auntie Crystal would have on thermals, gloves, a coat, a hat, etc....
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