will I ever get out of my house?!
I'm feeling trapped.
I awoke at 4am to the sound of the wind howling outside my bedroom window. The storm we're experiencing was supposed to be over by now...
I turned on the TV to find (much to my dismay) that the locals school districts have decided to close today due to the weather. Not good. We all got cabin fever yesterday, I'm not sure if we can survive another day without someone going postal.
So I got up and look out the window...or I tried to look out the window. Our house is split-level; you come in and go upstairs for the living room, kitchen etc, and downstairs for the bed and bath rooms. My bedroom window sits right at ground level. I can't see out of it because of the snow drift that's blocking it.
I went to the front door. Tried to open the screen door...not happening, there's a 4+' drift blocking that too, and I can see a huge (and I'm not exaggerating) drift in the street - it has to be at least 5' high.
Upstairs I go to check out the patio doors onto the deck. I can open them, but there's a chest-high drift on the deck - same thing with in front of the garage.
It would seem that if I wanted to get out of the house today I'd have to dig - not that it's going to do any good, I won't be able to get off our street until after the plows come, and that probably won't happen until this afternoon at the earliest. The AF has to have the flightline clear in case of emergencies, so that's the #1 priority..all us poor personnel have to wait until they have time to come dig us out.
The really scary thing is that the power keeps threatening to go out..the lights are flickering on and off...I've rounded up as many candles, sleeping bags and blankets as I can, because if it does go out there's no way we're going to be able to get to any emergency shelter...
..why is Dave always gone when this stuff happens??!