Snow Week

As I believe everyone who reads this knows, we've been having some crazy weather down here in Salem this week.  It's been snowy and icy and just a big mess.  School ended up getting cancelled for the whole week, and now it is Christmas vacation.  School starts back up on January 5th, but I thought I'd just write a short entry about this week.

Sunday night it started snowing like mad.  We got about 3 inches before 8 o'clock, and Salem-Keizer cancelled school that evening.  The next day there was snow everywhere - including the roads.  I didn't do much.  Just stayed inside and tried to keep warm.  I watched the kids who live in the complex spend most of their day sledding down the driveway - which is a very nice angle for sledding and completly covered in snow.  There were not many cars coming and going either. They cancelled school for the next day that night at around 7.  Tuesday was pretty much the same.  We didn't get any new snow, but it was REALLY cold outside so nothing melted.  The cancelled school for Wednesday on Tuesday night at around 5:30.  Wednesday it started to warm up a little and the snow thinned out a bit.  There was no decision made Wednesday night, so I had to set my alarm Thursday morning to see what they were going to do.  I didn't sleep very well because I kept dreaming that I was watching the morning news and reading the crawl announcing school closures that goes across the bottom of the screen and ever time Salem-Keizer would go by, something would distract me and I'd miss what it said!  Then I'd change channels, and the same thing would happen!  I finally gave up at about 6 and turned on the tv to see that they had in fact cancelled school again.  Thursday was probably the warmest day.  The snow in our parking lot turned to slush and everything was just very mushy and wet.  The roads were clear.  But then it got cold again Thursday night and all of the slush froze into a lovely layer of ice.  So Friday morning I turned on the tv to see that school was cancelled yet again.  The kids of Salem-Keizer ended up getting a whole extra week off of school.  Today it's starting to melt again, and I can actually see the pavement through the snow in our driveway.  I'm getting really sick of it, since I've been stuck inside most of the week, lost a potential week's worth of pay, and now my plans for going home are a little up in the air.

But I guess this will be the last entry for 2008.  I hope to have lots more to write when school starts back up!  No more of this snow all week junk.  Merry Christmas everybody!