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| Yesterday at 4 PM when the snow ended. The sun came out creating a beautiful sunset |
We're snowed in here folks!
Yesterday's snowstorm made up for last year when we didn't get any snow.
Here in the Milton/Lewes/Rehoboth Beach area we got from six to twelve inches of snow. That's enough to throw us in a panic.
Watching "Morning Joe" this morning, they reported on the thousands of cars stuck overnight on I-95 outside of Washington D.C. in the snow. Washington is considered the "South", and they panic if only two inches is forecast.
I remember when I was stationed at Ft. Meade, Maryland (right outside D.C.) and we were informed what the emergency snow routes were. I remember asking a fellow soldier "Didn't they just forecast two to four inches of snow?"I thought I heard wrong. I'm from southeastern Pennsylvania. While not Minnesota or even Tornonto Canada, two to four inches of snow was nothing. Just a slight inconvenience and yet at Ft. Meade, they're acting like it's Snowmageddon. Many of my fellow soldiers were from other parts of the country like Nebraska, Iowa and Maine. They also got a kick out of how the authorities at Ft. Meade always panicked at a forecast of any snow. But we did get a fair amount of snow here yesterday.
Bill wants to go outside and shovel. Of course that's impossible, he can hardly stand on his own two feet here in the house. "NO WAY!" I told him. He's so used to being the Man of the House and shoveling snow. When we lived in Pennsylvania on our almost seven acres of wooded paradise, he would get out the snow blower and clear a Pee Path for our Pomeranians and then clean off the snow from our five hundred hard driveway that wound up through the woods. Those days are long gone.
A bright sun is out this morning. I don't know how much snow will melt because the temperature is only twenty-one degrees. We don't have to go anywhere, I have enough food to last us for a month. Of course I might be a little low on milk, half and half and egg nog (all for Bill's daily two serving of oatmeal) but for feeding moi, I have a freezer chest stuffed. Good time to make some space in that freezer chest. Who knows what goodies are at the bottom? Oh, so that's what happened to that Royal Farms Spicy Chicken. I know I have twelve biscuits from Royal Farms that I froze. Also some taco bake casserole. I'll miss going out today and getting the chicken Parm special at Touch of Italy. That's been providing my sustenance for the past few weeks. Tuesdays is half price special. I can get five meals out of their delicious chicken Parm shaped like a pizza and taken out in a pizza box. I just cut a slice and put on my favorite pasta sauce (Rao's) along with some sliced of French baugette bread and preceded by a simple iceberg lettuce, cucumber and tomato salad with a garden vingarette dressing. I'm good to go.
As for our snow covered driveway. Maybe somebody will take pity on the two old men who live here and clean it for us. If not, I'll keep my ear perked up to listen for one of those Mexican crews that go through neighborhoods offering to clean the snow from driveways of old folks like us for a fee. Bill isn't shoveling NOTHING. I have the snow shovel up in our garden shed a long ways away from the house. He can hardly make it upstairs in the morning for his breakfast and day let along go the whole length of our back yard to the garden shed, trudging through a food of ice covered snow.
Thinking about all those folks stuck on I-95 outside D.C. now and hoping they can get home soon.
Stay inside folks, warm safe and comfortable in your home.