freaky weather

Today is the weirdest, freakiest weather I have ever encountered.  We got home from Chicago around 430 and were unloading the car and discussing whether we were hearing thunder or trucks on the road.  5 minutes later we look outside and it had started to snow.  10 minutes later we leave to go to a Super Bowl party and its snowing very hard, the roads are already covered.  We get down the road and its starts lightening out and booming thunder.  We call the party to see how the weather is there (its kinda out in the boonies…not good roads to get stuck on).  We go farther down the road hoping it’ll get better…more lighting, some sliding, thunder, more thunder, and we can’t see the car in front of us.  We turn around and drive home.  We were only what would normally take 5 minutes away, it took us over 10 min to get home from there.  No more than 15mph, crawling, and still can’t see a thing.  It’s now an hour later, we’re home with the game on, cable is going in and out, there’s at least 2 inches more on the ground and its just slowing down.
It has been a weekend of snowy weather.  Friday we got 8-10 inches of snow, enough to call off work.  It was wonderful, like a trip back in time to when I was a kid watchin the news for school closings.  We still had to wait until mid day to leave for Chicago to give them time to get the roads cleaned up.  I spent the time working on pictures for the website.  Tonight I’m going to download my camera and see how they turned out.  The weekend itself was fun and went by in a blur.  We got to see some friends that we don’t see very often.  It was nice to catch up and see whats new.  Also saw both families which is always fun.  Now we’re home and that’s a great feeling…despite some weird freaky weather.

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