Blizzard of '11

Jackson, Brett & Peyton
I'm a weather sceptic. I swear they are so far off most of the time or give such a wide range that anyone could predict. So when they said blizzard I just shrugged it off. By Monday that was all anyone was talking about and by Tuesday morning everyone was whipped up into a frenzy. I made sure we had enough food in the house and made sure we had enough of the boys' prescriptions for their coughs etc., but that's it.
But they were right. It was crazy yesterday afternoon/night. It wasn't so much the snow, but the high winds. It was thundering and lightening by our house and that was downright bizarre. It took Tate several hours to get home when it should have been less than an hour. By 5 a.m. today Tate's work was called off and I already knew everyone in my division was working from home. Tate ventured out around 9 a.m. to begin digging out and after helping several neighbors got back into the house right around noon.
It's kind of surreal to watch it all from your window while reading stories of people being stranded for nine hours in the city.
We were fortunate enough to stay cocooned in the comfort of our home.
But with 20.2 inches (the third largest on record in Chicago) there was no way we were going to pass up the opportunity to frolic a bit!


Peyton

Brett

Jackson

Jackson & Peyton knee deep in it