Colorado Blizzard!

It all began Wednesday morning at 6:20am. I got up early for school to enter grades and a glance at my phone showed two missed calls. Who would call me at that hour (other than my dad)? The first was a co-worker telling me school was cancelled and the other was another friend asking if I had heard that school was cancelled! :-) A snow day!! That is something unheard of here in Greeley. The ground was clear, but it was a little windy, so I took Eric to work at 8am. The forecast was for 10-20 inches of snow with winds of 25mph. No one thought it would really happen...these predictions have been made many times with no snow falling here in Greeley. Eric complained the whole time about me getting yet another day off when he had to work. I sensed bitterness in his voice, but the holidays and possible snow days were part of the benefits of teaching todays unruly youth.

I decided to get the rest of my Christmas shopping done before the storm hit and quickly succeeded. No one was brave enough to go out but my Xterra was more than enough to get through the forming drifts. Around lunch time I got home and Eric was calling for me to come get him because the credit union was closing early. It had snowed about 6 inches in the time it took to shop!

When we finally made it home, we wrapped gifts and turned on the blizzard coverage. It was amazing to watch the snow accumulate and Colorado come to a stop. Those poor people at DIA. We were glad that we didn't have plans to head back east over Christmas. We enjoyed a lazy day in our basement watching TV and napping. I got a call saying that school was cancelled Thursday as well so I started my vacation a few days early.


Here is a picture of Eric's car after the storm. My Xterra got priority in the garage.

The snow in our backyard was deep. The drifts "fill up" our yard within our 4 foot fence.

Here is Eric beginning to shovel us out. We had shoveled Wednesday night to let the dogs out, but 10 new inches fell by Thursday morning.

Our front walk took Eric 45 minutes to shovel!

It's not often you can snowshoe through the Fairacre neighborhood. I decided to save some gas and snowshoe around Glenmere Park rather than travel to the mountains. It was just as beautiful-and just as difficult! There were no snowpacked trails to follow, only fresh powder about waist high to trudge through.