The most snow we had this winter was 4" and a couple "dustings" which melted almost as soon as it hit the ground because we never really had freezing temperatures all winter. Tonight through Wednesday, they're expecting 18" to 24" locally.

Of course, the stores have been packed for those who think we'll be snowed in for weeks! My husband laughs at how they react. Selling generators at local hardware stores and snow shovels! You would think they would have snow shovels at hand already because we aren't exactly a snow free state.

Even our steep hill, which is a small public street, is plowed within hours of the snow stopping. Back in the '70s, we would be snowed in for a day or 2, but not anymore.

The winter here in my humble country only made me laugh,today we had some nice spring weather so I decided to take my little devil for a ride...I forgot what a bunch of (Curse word here) some peeps in cars can be.

50-100 miles further north they get snow few times a year but we get it every 5-10 years. Ok with me not want it since no longer in school. 25-50 miles further south and hot here but worse there as I went University in Americus which President & Mrs. Carter graduated from he gave speech once while there. My advisor his neighbor so saw him couple times year as President Carter visit every time he had a party. Sadly GSW officer & Americus officer were killed in line duty last December. Americus way too big for me I much preferred Cochran and the no longer exist Middle Georgia College which got adsorbed by Macon State University. It was oldest 2 year college in country when I went in 2000.

European atlas described Cochran as city less than 100,000 people. Yup much less not even 5000 people. European exchange students hated it. Talk about false advertising. Meet nobleman from Hungry his family lost it all as Communist took over.

I used live in rural area but Perry no longer is we be worse than Warner Robins as RAFB makes it so. I love the increase in Restaurants though.

My family from Holland one was Dutch governor of New Amsterdam and owned Wall Street before became Wall Street. I got aristocratic blood in me loved when my grandmother used title Master. She also refused to learn to drive. I call fast 5 mph so sure drivers happy I refused to learn.

One my amazon orders from weekend due today now says delayed was sent from TN. Guess snow delayed it. Know rain was cold today as left chick-fil-a. I probably eat candy bar I not going out in rain again in shorts. Not cold enough me buy anything but that. If real cold I stay home. As I hot when do not wear shorts.

I haven't see any snow this year

Well, snow almost stopped. I measured 20". My picture above my name is our Buick in the snow and the path is hubby going up to the garage to get the snow blower out....but the dang thing broke down, wouldn't move forward or backward. He had to tear it down and turned out the drive chain was broke. So he did his best to fix it. We shall see. Our driveway is very long You can park 4-5 cars in it end to end and that doesn't include where the car and pickup are parked. That's another 50 feet or so. So if he can't get the snow blower to work, I guess we'll be stuck here until the snow melts!

Poor runt (the tiny cat.) I heard her under the porch frantically meowing. The cats never lived through a winter before. Her brother is no where to be found right now but runt was frantic because the snow blocked all ways to get out from under the porch. i dug her out but she went nuts because she couldn't get off the porch (She is only about 6" tall and I don't think she weighs more than 4 lb.) She tried to find her brother by going under the coal trailer which is next to the pickup and the car. Once she got under the car, she started meowing frantically again. She couldn't go anywhere else. I couldn't get off the porch because of the snow and cane, so all I could do was coax her. She did manage to get back to the porch and then after hubby went up to the garage, she managed to be-bop in and out of hubby's footsteps and followed him up to the garage so he let her in to stay warm. I hope we can find her brother soon or he can find a way to get back to the porch.

I can only hope he got the snow blower fixed and can at least get down to the back hoe where he can do the driveway, if it starts. That's our kind of luck and my snow story for today. LOL

Well, the story of our lives. The snow blower was fixed. He got the part done that leads to the Central Boiler (outdoor furnace). Belts kept slipping and it took 2 hour to go 200 feet. He has extra belts but he organized his garage a couple months ago and can't find them anywhere. He shoveled a path to the backhoe and it started right up. He got most of the driveway done. Had 20 feet to go when a hydraulic hose started leaking oil. Car and truck are still blocked by all the snow as well as 15 feet of driveway going to the garage.

During my ups and down to the garage, I lost the rubber tip to one of my prongs on the quad cane so couldn't use it on the hardwood floors in the house. I couldn't find it anywhere. This morning, I went out and tried again. I found it! Hubby glued it on and hopefully it will stay.

In the meantime, I'm trying to find someone who will pick hubby up and take him to the hardware store so he can get new belts for the snow blower. Funny how he will drop everything to help someone but everyone has excuses when it comes to helping him. He can't shovel the driveway all by himself because of his heart, so I'm hoping someone will offer. He's too proud to ask for help. I'm going out to try to help but don't know what I can do being a gimp.

Maybe if you call the local fire department, police, or church, someone could bring the parts
to you that he needs.

This is why I hate cleaning my room I know where stuff is until do than mess room up looking for stuff once clean it.

valerie wrote: Maybe if you call the local fire department, police, or church, someone could bring the parts
to you that he needs.

They had enough problems trying to keep the roads clear and keeping the nitwits off the roads so they could clear them. It's not an emergency. The last time we got this much snow was in 1996, 3 feet that time, and no snow blower. It took us 3 days to shovel from our front door to the main road only enough to walk to the road but not drive.

A friend showed up late afternoon and took him for a belt but the stores that he could get to didn't have any. That figures and that's our luck. He shoveled by hand to get the car out, which took him 3 hours to do it slowly so as not to overtax him.

There were 3 deaths in our area from heart attacks. One poor woman wasn't found until the next day buried under 10" of snow. It's so sad that she had no one to help her. She lived in the country by herself.