Tired of it now

[textualdeviance]

Day two of being snowed in. I'd been hoping it was warm enough this afternoon to melt things down a little bit, but it only got up to 33 for an hour or so, which wasn't nearly enough to melt the foot or so that's still in the driveway. I'm guessing the same thing's going to happen tomorrow, and we're expecting a little more on top overnight.

The annoying bit is that the bottom half of the street has been sort of plowed and sanded and is driveable--enough so that we got FedEx and UPS deliveries today. It's just us four houses at the top of the hill (the dead-end street part) who are screwed. I can see driveable road from my front porch. I just can't get there.

At least we're not as bad as Gresham, which apparently had to call out the National Guard so emergency services could get where they needed to go. My in-laws aren't that far from there, too, so I'm really, really thinking it would be very stupid for us to attempt to drive down there tomorrow or even Thursday.

I'm seriously considering making a Safeway.com order and seeing if they'll actually deliver here. It doesn't get me the meds I need, which have been waiting at the pharmacy for the last three days, but it'd help restock the fridge, which is starting to get scarily low on some items. Not that we're in danger of starving, mind. We're just short on a few staples like bread and juice.

At least the power's been on, more or less, so far (knock on wood.) And we have the ability to work around that somewhat, if needed. I'm just getting a smidgy bit of cabin fever.

Comments

[noipeh.livejournal.com]

I can remember the winter I was pregnant with Bethany, who was due at the end of the winter, and we had over 20 snow storms that year. We lived at the end of a dead end too, and they would never get as far as our end...I finally called city hall and told them that if I went into labor early (I did, between storms 17 and 18) they better be prepared to get me out of there pretty quickly. We were plowed the next day and the whole rest of the winter!

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

It's hard for me to imagine what it would be like to be snowed in, because I've never lived anywhere that got snow more than once per decade (if even that often). But I think if it ever did happen to me, I would be completely and utterly panicked, because of my total lack of any previous concept that it's even possible to live that way.

[waterfaery.livejournal.com]

We have buddies with studded tires and would be happy to invite you here for Xmas Eve (our big Danish feast) if you would like to come.

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

That's very kind of you, and sounds wonderful, but I don't think studded tires would make a difference, sadly. Our problem is that we have vast piles of snow all along our chunk of the street that would need to be plowed before anything could get through. Even delivery trucks won't come all the way up.

And to make things even more delightful, it appears M picked up a nasty cold in Vegas, too, so we're pretty much housebound. :( :(

However, if this stuff turns to rain sometime in the next couple of days, we may well be able to help out with the baby-watching next week.