We've survived our first Noreaster

We aren't quite out of it completely but this is the most snow we've gotten in one snow storm before... we had our first snow day today and we are going a bit stur crazy and are wishing that school will be back in sesson tomorrow.. as you can see we have nearly 14 inches and that's just from about 2 am this morning.. we are expected to get up to 10 inches more... Ben has been working in it most of the day although they have cancelled a ton of flights they have to de-ice all the planes that they do have there no matter if they are leaving or not... we won't see him until tomorrow night sometime.. he's working round the clock since this morning until the storm is done (tomorrow afternoon after his usual thursday shift)

Brad has been begging all day to go outside.. i have resisted because it's been around 10-20 below (with the wind chill) but i let them go see how deep the snow was as you can see its about to his knee

Hunter also had to come out didn't even change his pj pants.. (yes it's almost 5 pm but we've been inside all day so i didn't make them get dressed!)

Before --------------------- After

the boys have been working hard on this "ice fort" putting block after block and there isn't much you can see of it now... they wern't too dissopointed though they were more excited that it seemingly stayed all together.. they have great plans to dig it out and build it up higher...

Here are some more pic's of the house and car etc.. just to show just how much snow there really is here... it will be dark when it all stops but its not suppose to get too warm so hopefully tomorrow i'll be able to take more pic's to show what the final outcome was...

Everyone cross your fingers that there is school tomorrow... Brad and all of the 5th grade has been working so hard on their play and tomorrow is the day they are putting it on for a couple of the local elementary schools... they have worked so hard and they don't have a make up day for the theatre they are using... they are doing their evening performances on thursday and friday evenings.. and if one gets cancelled we are going to have to try to get 45 kids parents stuffed into a small town hall for one performance!!! anyway hopefully it will all work out but it would make life allot easier if we just have school tomorrow!

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