Snow in Central, December 2008

You can see the headline in our paper. We were blanketed with 5 inches. We had snow on the ground for 5 days.
When it started we thought just a little snow, but it would not stop. The snow got so heavy you could hear the limbs breaking. You first heard a sound like a firecracker, then hear the limb hit the other limbs on the way to the ground. We still have dead limbs hanging in trees, one day they will fall.
On the first day Wayne left at 5:15 am to go to work, he came home at lunch before the roads were closed.
Donna was off that day but forgot to turn off her alarm clock. She was up at 5:30 taking pictures, as excited as when she was little. She was afraid I would miss the snow, when she woke me up the third time, I stayed up. We didn’t lose our electricity until the afternoon.
24,000 homes were without electricity for 2 ½ days. That included us. We went to bed with a pile of quilts, felt like we were back at my grandmother’s house. No heat in the bedrooms, only quilts so heavy you could not turn over.
First day the house was tolerable, each day got colder. The last night when we went to bed, the temperature inside was 55 degrees. Even the dogs were glad to go to bed at night, they were glad to be on the bed.
The town of Central is 7 ½ miles away, had electricity, we would drive there to get something hot to eat.
The work crews were back out trying to get the electricity going. Seemed like they never stopped, first the hurricane in September, followed by a snow storm in December. At least this time we did not have to worry about food spoiling.
Yes, it was pretty.
Donna and Michelle were in high school the last time we had a big snow. Morgan was in Mobile, she missed it all and was disappointed. Cacie and Cory were at Scott’s, they had fun. Michelle and her crew had a snow storm in March.
One of our neighbors had a Christmas tree as part of her decorations, you can say we had a ‘white Christmas’.
How do you like the ‘deerman’ instead of a snowman? Very imaginable.