Diggin' In

It snowed all night, and at some point we hit the 12-inch mark. It’s snowing still. This the morning around 4am the power went out. Great! Around noon there was a temporary lull in the storm so I suggested that we should go down the hill to Wal-Mart, and buy some supplies, and get a Coleman stove, some propane gas for it, some lamp oil, wicks, and candles. We stocked up on canned goods, and simple meals like Macaroni and Cheese. By the time we got home it was starting to get dark, and we still had to take all the food down the embankment, which was now about 24 inches high. Eric started a fire, and I started taking all of the food in the fridge out to the backyard, and burying it in a snow bank. We roasted hot dogs in the fireplace, and ate them by lantern light. We already had a Colman propane lantern in the emergency kit I kept in the shed, also without power the blower on our fireplace insert didn't work, and it got a little nippy in the house. Needless to say it was an exhausting day, and we bundled up in warm clothes, and went to bed around 9:30. It snowed steadily all night.