Sunday - 11th -
.... started at 5am with a phone call from the nursing home Mack works at...
they were asking me if there was any possible way my son could come in to work then - on his day off! - because the day cook had just called to say she'd gone off the road and was in a ditch waiting for help and probably wouldn't make it in. Poor Mack; he was up until 4am rearranging his room... not expecting to work or need to get up so early. He spent 45 minutes shoveling snow away from his car... so much more snow had fallen overnight you could not even see where plows had been the day before (they had stopped running about 10pm unable to keep up with the snowfall... just doing main roads). It was even hard to see a difference between road and yards! The unplowed road had snow anywhere from 8" to 18" deep depending on which way the wind blew it overnight. Mack cleared his car but was unable to drive even 30' without getting stuck repeatedly... and he had about 5 blocks to go before hitting a main road. Another neighbor, out shoveling too, helped him get unstuck and get his car reparked.
At 6am we called the nursing home to report that he could not get there...
after having tried numerous other ideas to see if ANY vehicles were moving about (city, local police, county, sheriff, state patrol, cab companies, etc)
--- not a one was moving yet.
State and county road crews (snowplows) went back to work at 3am and 5am respectively... moving snow at least 12" deep to somewhere off the roads. The resulting piles of snow amassed easily topped road signs and fences! It was 9:30 before we finally got one on our street and it took him four passes to clear the road - tho I must say he did a SUPER JOB in helping to move a couple feet of snow away from one side of Mack's car without even a scratch! :)
It was 10:30 before Mack was on his way to work...
since now, none of the day cooks were going to make it in,
he'd be there to prepare lunch and dinner.
The night shift had to feed all the residents cold cereal for breakfast.
Near 11am the girls all worked together to dig out our 2 overnight guests -
18-24" around the car,
and about 4 or 5 FEET of snow at the end of the driveway!
An hour later they were at their original destination of the night before. :)
A couple of hours after that Becca & Jessi left with their dad
to see Allyssa's play:
UW-L production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"
for their closing show.
Not long after they left our friend and neighbor, Bob, arrived with his snowblower! I'm so grateful for his kindness in clearing all the sidewalks and the driveway, including widening the end of it where the girls had dug thru for their friends to leave earlier. :)
The rest of the day was quiet... not much left of it really since by this time it was about 3pm... but the quiet was nice. :) I should have taken the time then to actually work my business but I held off because I really don't want to get into working on Sundays. I'm still struggling with scheduling time for it. It's so hard to find the time. There are always problems to tend to that can't be put off. When I'm finally done with dealing with it/them I find myself in too much pain or far too down to be of any good at work. :(
