Please humor me and let me give some background information first. It has been exactly a year to the week of the crippling ice storm of '09 in NWA. People were out of power for days, some more than a week, businesses and schools were closed for that same week and the ice along with the bitter coldness and wind was devastating to the beautiful landscapes. So you can imagine the scare, wait, maybe panic is a better word, when the weather forecast started to include a winter storm with ice for this week. When I went to Walmart Wednesday, two days before the storm was scheduled to hit, there was no bread on the shelves...no bottled water...no ice melt...the list could continue. Rumors of special disaster trucks arriving at all the Walmart's in the area became reality as people prepared to hunker down for the storm. Said storm came in with a vengence Thursday night, causing school to be cancelled (surprise!!!) and lots of businesses to shut down as well. Conditions only got worse during the day as the snow just kept coming. We think at least 6 inches fell here. On top of a layer of ice, which makes being out and about pretty treacherous. Anyway, as happens in this house, we made the best of it! I was already scheduled to host a neighborhood playdate, which had a nice turnout and was lots of fun! Then the Symons' came over and we spent the rest of the day and evening playing in the snow, driving around in the Ranger, shoveling and eating. We all had so much fun, we are going to repeat again today!
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that looks like so much fun!!!
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