Yay vindication for Toddson!
Ltc has awesome parents.
Thanks Deena. I'm staying home. The road I live on from where people park in bad weather to the road isn't cleared. Evidently my brother did that and now he doesn't live here so there isn't a plan. Or there wasn't. It's about 40 yards to the main road and the snow was mid calf to knee deep so I'm not shoveling..
Next time it snows I'm parking by the cemetery, which is about a half mile from the house. It may snow on Thursday and Friday so I'll be able to try that. If it snows it will be another weekend before I can see Matthew or maybe even Christmas depending on weather and schedules.
Local people are getting testy. Some people have been without power since Sat and don't know when it will be restored. Some roads were just cleared today and a few aren't cleared . Snow is melting so that is good but it will be in the 20s tonight so ice in the morning. People are acting as if the utility company is neglecting them on purpose but they aren't.
Someone reported that Sat or Sun EMTs were trying to gst to someone and they got stuck then fire truck came and got stuck and DOT came to try and clear the road and they got stuck. There were lots of trees down and people have had to cut trees with chain saws and move them so DOT trucks can get by to scrape the road so the utility truck can follow
Some places got 20" of snow. We got 16". Hopefully most of this will melt tomorrow. Mom can't get out until she can drive down our dirt road because she can't walk down to the main road so her car is here.
Vindication for Toddson!!
Now give her a bonus and an early retirement package.
That is awesome, Todd!
I've been watching the reports, askye. What a mess. I'm sorry you are stuck, but grateful you at least have power.
Ads for weighted blankets keep following me around Facebook doggedly, and I'm thinking about backing this Kickstarter for one: [link] I know that Tim would love it (when he was a kid, he used to get between his mattress and box spring). (It's really really helpful to be married to someone who's non-neurotypical.)
Nice! I love how they way more than met their fundraising goal.
Shit. My friend T wasn't responding to texts or calls lately. So, I knew something was wrong. I finally got in touch with her and her husband is in the hospital on a respirator because of fluid on his lungs. I'm actually just as worried about T as her DH. She already had a stroke young and has high blood pressure. She doesn't handle this kind of stress well. Any ~ma you can spare for them please.
Oh dear, sj. Calm~ma for your friend and recovery~ma for her DH.
Weighted blankets are the bomb. I got mine from Sensacalm. I got the 25 lb which at times feels too heavy but usually is perfect.
I'm still stuck at home. The landlady only plows the plowed snow at the entrance of the road. The rest of it we are supposed to deal with on our own. Someone got out with a combination of shoveling and driving over snow but they have All Wheel Drive and higher clearance on their car.
So I'm here for another day. I'm hoping it will melt more tomorrow. But I'm glad I don't have to walk down the car. I put a video up on FB of part of my walk up.
Sj lots of calm~ma and healing ~ma to your friends.
All the ~ma for T and her DH, sj.
