The morning after the storm...

I managed to get to bed a little after 3:00 a.m. The cats get really hyper at night! Urgh.

Anyway, I had every intention of sleeping most of the day away. Bill was going to stay home again today. However, at 7:15 a.m., Bill's work called him to go plow snow in parking lots. Before he took off with our snow shovel (to do sidewalks), I quickly shovelled our front walk, then went and helped our across the street neighbor get back into his house. He is a quadriplegic and got his motorized wheelchair stuck in the snow while trying to get his morning paper.

After Bill left, I walked down to Shirley Gray's house to help her shovel her driveway. She is a widow and really shouldn't be breaking her back over heavy snow! She needed her driveway clear so she could drive her daughter, Pam, to work. Otherwise we could have just let it melt on its own.

When I got home, Bill called and suggested that I drive Pam to work in the Expedition. The roads were clear, but the parking lots weren't and Shirley's car is not 4 wheel drive.

So I did. Shirley came with and took me out to breakfast afterwards at Burger King.

All of this before 9:00 a.m. and on only 4 hours of sleep!

The storm was between 4" and 6" of heavy, wet snow. Unfortunately, the heavy load was too much for many tree branches all over town. Our flowering plum in the front yard was a casualty of the storm. It has 4 limbs broken off. Once it is dry enough out we will trim down the tree and survey the damage. The center photo in the collage is a picture of the biggest break.

Hard to believe that Helena and I were laying in the back yard on Saturday, sunning ourselves!

By the way, if you click on the collage, you will see an enlarged version so that you can see each individual image up close!