The Really Big Snew of 2008

It started out as light snow, a couple of inches, but day-by-day it began to build until after a couple of weeks we had 3 feet and temperatures down to 9 degrees Farenheit...pretty cold for us here on the west side of the Cascades. Ice built up, we had six foot icicles hanging off the roof and we were carrying warm water to the goats twice a day. We have one 4 wheel drive truck, so we could get out, but my car was buried under a huge mound of snow and when I tried to dig it out it seemed insurmountable... and in fact it was. As things warmed up a bit more, unbeknowst to us, the car began to leak. There was a pool of water collecting in the bottom of the driver's side, filling it until anybody sitting in the back seat would have had wet feet too. And no matter how often we used buckets to drain it out and soak up the remainder with towels, it always came back. Three weeks turned into a month and a half before we could get it towed and discovered our entire instrument panel had been wiped out from too much water. Yikes! I didn't mention that one morning we woke to a big woosh outside our window. Running downstairs, I found that the entire front porch had been decimated by all that snow and ice on the roof. Normally I love it when it snows, but when it came down again in mid January, I couldn't find my typical snow enthusiasm...it had vanished, at least for this winter season. Maybe next year!