It's Saturday February 9, 2013 in MA and I'm snowed in. The blizzard hit yesterday with snow starting to fall around 9 in the morning. All in all it hasn't been bad. I didn't lost power or my cable services (TV, television or phone) but heating my apartment has been real hard.
I got a call from one of my best friends earlier today saying he wanted to come over. I told him that wasn't a good idea as the walks haven't been cleared yet and the snow is drifted in some spots as high as 3 feet. I know the snow has been blown and drifted up against my living room window to the point it covers the lower panes of glass. (my living room window is a picture window with lower and upper glass. It is about 5 feet tall and 6 feet wide and is about 18 inches off the floor) There was also snow blown into the hall outside my apartment door and I couldn't open the door to the outside because of a snow drift.
It's bitter cold outside and all that cold is radiating into the apartment. It happens every time it gets cold outside. Nothing I can do about that. I can't wait for the walks to get cleared so I can go out and take pictures of the snow. It will give others in my family who haven't been effected by the snow to see how much we got here. I tried to take some from the hall door but they didn't turn out to well because it was just a sea of white.
I am not crazy about the cold or snow but this has been nice. It's been quiet and peaceful. I do miss seeing my oldest son but he has an opportunity to make some money shoveling snow so I'm happy for him. My youngest won't be out playing in the snow because he had to have a cast put on his wrist yesterday for a hairline fracture from a fall the week before. I do feel bad he won't be able to go out and go sledding as his yard is perfect for it. I know that later this afternoon when things get plowed and snow blown out the kids will be sledding down the hill outside my apartment. They have such fun doing that.
So if you live in New England how did you fair through this blizzard? Was it as bad as the one in 78 or not? The news was saying this may be one for the record books. Do you think it is or not? And what do you think makes it different than the one in 78? Was it because they called a state of emergency early and called for everyone to stay off the roads? I know some of you were out there any way and was wondering if you had fun.
Hope I get some responses to this post. It would be nice to hear how others have fared through this blizzard. I'm sitting here snug as a bug in a rug with heat, power and cable. I feel like one lucky person today.
