This past weekend we had a crazy ice storm that pretty much put the North of Texas to a complete halt!
It was so weird, since the past Wednesday it was 80 degree's and then slowly the temperature just started dropping. On Thursday it turned cloudy and the temp dropped into the 30's. Dan got home from work just in time to start hearing the ice pellets hit the roof of our house. It didn't stop all night long.
Friday we woke up to literally everything frozen over. There wasn't a single thing that wasn't covered in ice. The trees were weighed down and the branches were either broken off from the weight or still hanging on, but frozen solid to the ground. Everything was cancelled for the day. It was nice knowing that we wouldn't have to go out in this crazy weather.
We had to go out back to make sure that the pump to the pool was running ok, so that the pipes wouldn't freeze, but the gate was completely frozen shut.
I felt really stupid, for not covering all of our plants and rose bushes, we just honestly didn't think it would be this bad. We have had freeze warnings in the past and it really ended up being just cold rain, so we thought that we would be fine.
So we were house bound for 3 days. It was actually really nice and cozy being all bundled up in the house with Christmas lights on everywhere and Christmas music filling the house. Knowing that we couldn't go anywhere made us feel not so bad for being so lazy.
We did a lot playing with June and all her little toys. We colored many many snowman pictures and re-decorated the tree a few times, courtesy of June.
We played a lot on our I-pads and watched lots of movies
We did a lot of sleeping
June wrote Santa a letter. We tried taking it to our mailbox but we literally were iced in. We couldn't make it two steps without slipping on the ice. So we had to mail it on Monday.
We had lots of craft projects. Thankfully a few days before, I had made a trip to the dollar store and stocked June up on little Crafts for the holiday season.
Dan got really into it
And we slept some more
June caught a pretty nasty cold over the week, so she took a lot of hot baths. She loves baths!! Especially when she is sick!
Owen did what he does best. Chill.
This continued on for 3 days.
Friday it was fun and Cozy, but by Sunday we were all going a little stir crazy not leaving the house.
Dan attempted to leave on Saturday afternoon for groceries. Well, we live on a hill and it was not such a good idea to leave the house. I watched Dan pull out of the drive way, and into the alley way. I walk back inside. About 5 minutes later, he calls me and tells me he is stuck and needs my help. I walk out to go find him and he hasn't moved from where I left him. I shoveled the ice away, as best as I could, and he pretty much slid down the rest of the alley way. The car was completely sideways. We were so lucky we didn't hit a gas main line!
After getting groceries, he came into the house and told me the car is at the bottom of the hill on the main road. It was just to slick to get back up. He, himself almost couldn't make it up with all the groceries because everything was just so slick. Literally nothing but ice. He carried bags of groceries up our hill out in the freezing cold! What a man. I would have just left them... hahaha
Church was cancelled Sunday so we celebrated the sabbath by having a lesson of our own, and then watching the Christmas devotional. The roads had started to melt a little by then and we knew it would be back to work on Monday. Dan was able to get my car back up into the drive way late that night.
Now the sun is out and it's slowly starting to melt. Bridges and over-passes are still pretty icy, but for the most part everything is now just wet and dirty... No good for carpets!
It was fun to watch the ice fall and be stuck inside with my family for 3 days, but it's nice to have the sun out again. Let's hope for good weather here on out until we make it to Canada and Idaho for Christmas!
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