We wanted a White Christmas, we got a White Christmas (and then some!). After years of having winter storms pass us by, we finally got one. After rain on December 23rd and Christmas Eve morning, it started sleeting during the afternoon of the 24th. It turned to snow during the early evening hours and the National Weather Service issued a Blizzard Warning. It kept snowing on and off through Sunday as the main part of the storm actually pulled a U-turn and came back at us from the north. I think we shoveled the driveway four times. How much snow did we get? Hard to say due to all of the blowing and drifting, but from what we shoveled, it was probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 14 to 16-inches throughout the weekend. This is the most snow that I've seen in the Kansas City area since I moved here in '89.
This was a familiar sight during the storm.
This was a familiar sight during the storm.
This may have been from Saturday. I kind of lost track of time with all of the shoveling.
And here's what the front of the house looks like now. We've got some pretty good mounds at the end of the driveway from removing what the street crews plowed.
Did we spend all of our time shoveling? Heck no! If there's snow on the ground, we're going to go sledding. There's a great hill at one of the parks in Lenexa that's never too crowded, it's easy to get to, and there's plenty of parking. We added another sled this year and it took Libby and I a while to figure out how to steer the thing. Here's Libby after one of our runs (with Lori and Sara in the background).
And the other two members of the sledding team....
