Snow Day

The Washington DC area went from almost spring-like weather to a winter snowstorm. I measured 11 inches on the patio and some nearby areas supposedly got around 24 inches. Our condo association contracts for snow removal but you never know when they'll actually arrive. So, I headed outside with shovel in hand to dig my way down the walkway and out to shovel around the cars and clean them off. I quickly discovered that whatever I had pulled in my chest the other day was going to trouble me in shoveling. However, using a smaller, lighter shovel and taking smaller loads I was able to do what needed to be done.

While pushing the snow off of my car I broke the driver's side wiper blade, so we had to head out in Michele's car looking for a replacement. Luckily I found some at our first stop.

Roads were not bad. The plow crews did a great job and temperatures into the mid 30's allowed the roads to even dry off.

All in all it was a very pretty snowstorm, with snow that clung to the trees in pictoresque ways. Unfortunately this also created many power outages due to downed power lines.

School has already been cancelled for tomorrow. My kids are ecstatic.

Going into my surgeries I was afraid that something, like a snow storm, would mess up our travel and upset the surgery plans. I'm so glad that I got both surgeries done without these problems. It must be hell scheduling winter surgery with Dr Schrang!