Stir Crazy

We headed to the grocery store around 10pm on Friday night, expecting few shoppers at that time of night. The store was packed with people stocking up for the big snowstorm. You would think people were preparing for the Apocalypse!

Upon entering the store, we were lucky to find any food left to purchase. All of the primary staples were all snapped up. It was a good thing we didn't need any bottled water!

Fortunately our fridge was already well stocked with lunch meat!

If we had wanted to purchase Raman noodles, no dice!

But the aftermath of the snowstorm turned out to be no laughing matter - 2 feet of powder later, we were stuck for the entire day on Saturday. From our windows we obseved many strange behaviors of the locals who are not used to this amount of snow. We observed a couple taking their baby out for a walk in the middle of the storm, and they seemed surprised that their stroller didn't roll easily through the snow. We also observed other brave souls shoveling in the middle of the storm, with plastic bags wrapped over their shoes.

It is Sunday at noon and the plows still have not arrived. The Metro is closed so we really can't go anywhere! First Bobby tried shoveling us out and then our measly shovel, left here by previous owners, broke with the weight of the snow.

Faced with spending another entire potential Christmas shopping day stuck at home, Bobby has banded together with the neighbors to shovel us all out! They are shoveling as we speak, while I'm blogging and sipping my coffee :) Hopefully we will get out soon!

- Laurie