{"id":9713,"date":"2022-12-16T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T16:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9713"},"modified":"2022-12-16T11:13:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T16:13:48","slug":"yep-we-got-the-big-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2022\/12\/16\/yep-we-got-the-big-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Yep, we got the big snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were expecting it and had gotten everything as ready as possible on the weekend. Then, on Sunday night, our friend, Tom, called to tell me his friend, who was going to drive him to Mayo Clinic, had come down with RSV. Oh oh! He asked me if I could do it. And, of course, I said yes, kind of worrying about the huge snowstorm that was making its way from the West and was supposed to dump many inches on our lovely state, starting on Tuesday. Yup, that’s when we were driving down! I’ll admit to praying a lot about it and we made it down in very good shape; no snow at all! The storm had sort of stalled in the Dakotas, temporarily. Well, Tom had his biopsy on his brain tumor and, thankfully, it came back benign. But the storm was headed for us, starting Wed morning, when we were going to head home. After all, it’s only a 5\u00bd hour drive in good weather\u2026<\/p>\n

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This is what it was like, driving home yesterday evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We headed out and got about halfway before running into some frozen slush on the freeway. Tom kept on his phone and Google said we should go west to avoid the snow. I preferred to stick to the freeway as the plows are out 24\/7, keeping them open. But Tom wanted to go west, so west we went. I’m not a fan of the Google assistant. “She” sent us down a not-yet maintained secondary highway, then onto miles of a non-maintained farm road. And we’re wading through a foot of heavy wet snow without traction control on my car. (I have an appointment on January 2nd to get it fixed; there were no faster appointments available.)<\/p>\n

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I was so glad to see that Will had plowed the driveway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then, we hit a more-traveled, lightly plowed two-lane highway but the road was still bad. To make a long story short, we went about 200 miles on (mostly) unplowed roads, following very few vehicle tracks in the snow. Whew, was I ever glad to get home after nearly 8 hours, to see Will had plowed our driveway’s foot of snow, nice and wide. I’m glad I could make the trip for Tom but was sure glad to get home.<\/p>\n

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Last night, we got another foot of snow, on top of the foot we’d gotten on Tuesday night and Wednesday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last night, it snowed another foot, so we have lots and lots of snow, still to deal with. But I’m home. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were expecting it and had gotten everything as ready as possible on the weekend. Then, on Sunday night, our friend, Tom, called to tell me his friend, who was going to drive him to Mayo Clinic, had come down with RSV. Oh oh! He asked me if I could do it. And, of course, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9717,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713\/revisions\/9717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}