Blizzard!

Well after the snow held out for so long this year, our first blizzard officially arrived. It started raining Friday and of course that turned into snow late in the night so it all mixed and made a mess. Yesterday it did nothing but snow and the winds were ridiculous so there are huge drifts everywhere.

Of course that means we had to make an anual trip through a blizzard to try and get to ER. Last year on Christmas Eve there was a huge blizzard and we had to take Jaxton to ER and he ended up having croupe. This time Toad woke up around 6am itching like crazy. The only thing we could come up with was that it was a reaction to a medication he took last night and when we looked it up it said if severe itching occured to seek immediate medical attention. We should have known trying to get out of town that we'd never make it to the hospital but there wasn't much else to do. After weaving through the few plowed roads in town we made it just outside of town before running into a car stranded in a drift in the middle of the road. There was a plow sitting on the other side of it but we decided we should just turn around. Well while I was starting to turn around in the road the plow started heading straight at us so I had to straighten out quickly and we figured since he was coming our way that he must have already plowed the road we were on. We kept driving and it wasn't too bad until we got to the top of a hill and ran into a huge drift before I even had a chance to hit the brakes. It looked like blowing snow then pow-we were stuck in the middle of the road.
Let me mention again my husband is sitting in the passenger seat itching everywhere the whole time we've been driving. Within a few minutes of getting stuck and realizing we were not getting out on our own he says "You're going to hate me but I don't itch as bad now." I figured this would happen.

Finally a plow pulled up on the other side of the drift. The guys tried working to even get to us on the other side of the road but the drift was about 4 feet high and their pickup just wasn't going to get through it either. So after sitting in the car, watching one of my windshield wipers bust and the other do nothing, a guy starts walking toward us in the middle of the road. He lived at a house closeby and said he'd been able to get a couple of other people out and he had a tractor if we wanted him to try to help out. It took him what seemed like forever to walk back to his house and return with the little tractor! He finally got us out and by that point we didn't care about trying to get to the hospital anymore, we just wanted to make it back home.

Upon returning home, our friend who had been staying with us all weekend told us that the highway we were driving to when we got stuck was actually closed a couple of miles down anyway so we never would have made it to town.

We were extremely lucky for a number of things today. 1-Kelly was here to watch the boys so we were able to attempt going to ER. 2-That they boys weren't with us when we did get stuck. 3-That nobody was hurt when we hit the snowdrift pretty hard. 4-That hubby's itching did slow down since we weren't able to get to town. Most importantly 5-there were 3 people nice enough to try and help us get out of the drift, especially the guy who wasn't being paid to plow, he was just helping others out even at 6:30am. It's nice to know there are still people like this out there!