The last 10 days I swear we have been living in Alaska not Portland! It has been a lot of fun but at the same time crazy and weird! The first video is from the beginning of the storm. It had snowed a few inches and then we got "frozen rain" Which is a sheet of ice that covers the snow.
There was a warmer day and things started to thaw-including the ice plugging the broken irrigation pipe in my back yard. Once that thawed, we ended up with almost 2 feet of water in our crawl space before I even knew what happened. That was a blast to fix:)
A few days ago we woke up to these pictures taken below. I measured in the center of our yard and we had 19 inches of snow! With all the new snow we found ourselves stranded in our house. In the pictures you can see how we were literally stranded because you couldn't even see our cars! and then the fun started! Our electricity went out and within 10 hours our house was below 50 degrees. Luckily our friends the Corrys came and rescued us and we spent the night over at their house until our electricity came back on.
Now things are starting to really thaw out again and we are looking forward to having a very very white Christmas! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Winter Wonderland!
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Wasn't that storm amazing? I hope that we do not have another one like that very soon. But, it was absolutely beautiful and I loved being able to play in the snow with my girls. Now I get to be in Sunny CA and not have to worry about it.
If you'd just move to sunny Ca. you wouldn't have to worry about all of that!
Looks like our yard. We got 36 inches. Dave had to shovel all the snow off our roof. Then jumped off into it.
Sorry, the power went out. It's nice to have friends to help you out when you are in need.
Hope you had a great Christmas.
Love, Tiff and Dave
I agree with Shannon.
What a fun adventure:)! The video was awesome - I have never seen sheets of ice on snow like that before where you can kick it over. Crazy!
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