mini blizzard...

so wednesday we had a mini blizzard. and not the dairy queen kind!!! i was 20 minutes late for work because it was so awful by my house. it was very pretty the next day, but not during the storm!! i took this picture the next day. i love it because it has summer (blue sky), fall (the variety colors of leaves) and winter (the dreaded snow) in it. as much as i am in denial about it, i think winter is here...

so not ready...

for winter to be here. what happened to autumn/fall? it was here for like 5 minutes. then it changed last night to winter. i know, it's utah, so in 5 more minutes we'll have another day or so of summer, but still. i'm so not ready for this...

my deck isn't either...

and these little guys think it's too early, too...

for the love...

no, unfortunately this isn't a post about valentine's day. it's a post about the awful freaky weather we've been having this year. yesterday, specifically. so watching the news, they were saying a small storm was coming between 1-3pm. well the storm came with a vengeance. my mom called me at work (i was working 7a-7p) around 630pm to tell me to be careful going home because the roads were horrible. great...after a horrible and exhausting day at work, i get to deal with getting home in horrible weather, adding probably an hour or so to my commute.

so i get off work and head out to my car. on the way to the parking lot, my boyfriend calls. he asks me if i've left work yet. i told him i was just getting to my car and he tells me i need to just go to my parents house. why, i ask? apparently the storm is worse in the south part of the valley (salt lake valley) which is where i need to drive through to get home. he left work at 530pm, starting his usual 30 minute commute, and he isn't even half way home yet...after 2 1/2 hours. he was currently stopped on the freeway. visibility around the point of the mountain (between the two counties-salt lake and utah-we have what's called the point of the mountain) is almost zero. the roads are covered in snow and ice. the freeway exit to our house and all roads to the entire community we live in have been closed. so even after we get through all the traffic, we can't even get up to our house! so he's already past the point of return to come back to my parents, so he decides to try and make it to his parents house.

so i start my travels to my parents house. the roads are bad, but not the worst i've seen. it took me about an hour (usually takes about 20 minutes) to get to my parents house. i stop at walmart and get some pj's and a toothbrush and head to their house. by this time, kerry has been stuck in his car on the freeway for 3 1/2 hours. he's about 1 mile until the end of the traffic that will allow him to get off the freeway to his parents home. so we both spent the night at our parents houses!!!

what a mess!! since this storm hit in the afternoon and had such high winds reducing visibility and creating blizzard conditions, there were several school buses that couldn't get kids home, so they had to go back to the schools were at least 60 kids had to spend the night because they couldn't get home! there were also a few buses that had to be abandoned because they were stuck and they had to move all the kids to other vehicles!

here is a link to the news story from last night about the mess...

so this morning (it's 1030am as i type) i'm still at my parent's, kerry's still at his parent's, and the road to our house is still closed!! happy valentine's day to us!!! so who knows how long we'll be stranded!! once i get home, i can't wait to see how we get to our house since we live on a hill. i'll have to take pictures as i'm sure there will be a ton of snow!!

oh for the love...

remember my post last week about how much i'm done with snow? well, apparently, my vote doesn't count. i woke up to this today...

and just for reference sake...below is a picture of my porch with no snow. so you can see how deep it is. it's snowed at least a foot. if we had to go anywhere today (luckily we don't!) there is no way we would even get out of our driveway or circle!!!

here's another view. when i walked out to take this picture, the snow was almost up to my knees. notice where the brick ends by the garage door and how tall the snow hits it!!! and there is still a heavy snow warning in effect until tomorrow morning. should make for another fabulous monday morning commute...i'm seeing a pattern here...

on a somewhat related note, my parent's, grandma and aunt's and uncle's all left this morning to go on a carribbean cruise. they had to leave around 430am, so i hope they made it before all of this hit. the bad thing is they had to fly into denver before houston, so hopefully this storm didn't head that way.

this winter sucks!!!

i'm so done...

with this stupid weather and the snow. so as i was driving to work this morning, at 830am, it was sunny with blue skies and a little wind. two hours later, i look out the window and it is a freaking blizzard. i can't even see across the street. the wind is blowing so hard, it's snowing sideways, almost up! it was crazy!! i left work at around 245 and there was about 5-6 inches of snow on my car. holy snow, batman!!!

this is a picture of my porch and front door. i just wanted to show you how crazy windy it was while it was snowing. my porch is somewhat protected from the wind, except today. you should have seen the porch before it was shoveled!! you couldn't even see the stairs because the wind had blown a big old snow drift and covered them!!!

i hate the snow!!!

and apparently more...

argh!!! what is wrong with this picture?? so the pictures in the post below (here) were taken at 1030 this morning. this picture...







was taken at 230 pm this afternoon. i don't like the snow very much anymore!!! where did my blue sky go???

snow storm...

yesterday we had a huge snowstorm. it snowed about a foot at my house. getting to work was a nightmare. my usual 35 minute commute took me an hour and a half! there were over 300 accidents reported yesterday. luckily, i avoided on 5 separate times. i was 40 minutes late for work! i hope i never have to drive in that sort of snow again!!! here are some pictures of my neighborhood. the pictures were taken today, which is an absolutely beautiful clear blue sky day, but cold...12 degrees!!!