A Whole Lot of White Stuff

So I know you've all seen a lot of snow pictures lately, but I have to have an official "snowpocalypse/snOMG" blog post too, sorry. It's for the family and friends in of the warm states, don't you guys even think about complaining about weather for the next 5 years!

Last Wednesday morning we woke up and our house was about 50 degrees...inside. Our furnace had quit working, which is not exactly ideal when there is a two-month-old living at your house. Even better news, the furnace repair people weren't working on Wednesday due to the bad roads, fan-frickin-tastic. Luckily the hubs is good at reading directions and deciphering codes, which led him to figure out that our furnace shut off because the pipes were completely blocked by drifting snow. Had the furnace not automatically shut off because of this, we would have had carbon monoxide coming into the house, SCARY! Anyway, the hubs saved the day and we warmed up and unlayered shortly after breakfast.

That was the last time I saw the husband for about five hours, because he was doing this:

and yes, that five foot drift is actually part of the driveway that had to be plowed

That gate behind him is about 4.5 feet tall and snow was drifted all of the way to the top of it

Here is a shot of the snow drifts in our screened in porch.

After he cleared out our driveway enough to get the car out, we decided that we needed to peace out of Snowmageddon so we headed for the airport. By midnight that night we were in not so warm, but a whole lot warmer than Wisconsin, Arizona.

The trip was already planned, and there will be more on that in post(s) to follow.