The Waiting Game - Two Feet?

A weekend and week of snow blowing and shoveling, and now waiting, waiting for the “other shoe to drop”. Duluthians and the Northland are waiting to see what is going to happen in the next two days here.

No snow today. It has given everyone a chance to dig out, in preparation for our next big storm that they say we are getting for sure. This afternoon, Bob got all the snow off the dormers and roof. It all then lands on our deck that runs the length of our house on the back. Poor Rob, he gets to then shovel all the snow off the deck that came down from the roof (in addition to what was already on the deck). I’d like to say he does it from the kindness of his heart, but it’s more because we tell him its part of his living here…ha ha. Thank you, Rob. (He really is a good guy!)

There is a blizzard warning in effect from now through Friday. It was reported on the news that the city is prepared, they have made sure that all 18 graders and 19 snowplows are in good condition and ready to go when the storm hits.

We have so many scenarios of what weather we are going to get, we don’t know what to expect for sure. First, the snow was to start by 6 pm tonight, now it’s been changed to starting after midnight, another station says after 9 pm, and varying amounts of snow are reported for tomorrow, tomorrow afternoon and night. They are saying 50 mi. per hr. winds to come with it, and up to 2 feet of snow by the time Friday morning comes, or maybe Friday will be worse than Thursday, who knows…I don’t think the weather-men know. We do know the snow IS coming … it is in twin cities now, heading this way.

Will we get a snow day from work tomorrow, or maybe not till Friday, or maybe not at all? We are all dreading the drive if we do have to go to work. There are 8 in the office I work in. All but three of the staff have lap top computers. I'm one that does not have one. They all took their lap tops home tonight, saying they will work from home tomorrow, so you know they won't try to drive in, then the part time gal doesn't work tomorrow or Friday, so that only leaves two of us to have to try to get to the office on bad roads. We don't have the "work from home with the laptop" option! Too bad, our computer sits on our desk!

So…we know we will get SNOW, we know it will come with high winds… but when it hits, and exactly how much, guess you readers, like us, will have to stay tuned.