The skies are brightening, the rain has stopped, and my kids are snuggled in their beds with visions of anything but sugar plums dancing in their heads.
They are happy, in spite of being awakened at 6:35 to get ready for school; because at 6:36, I turned on my radio to find out school is cancelled because of snow RAIN. Upwards of four inches fell yesterday and many roads are closed or unsafe for travel.
The hazard of living in the Tennessee VALLEY when you aren’t in a drought.
Off to photograph my flooded neighborhood–I’ll post what I find later today.
{{Shout out your location & a weather report. Unless it’s 75 and sunny, ’cause then I’d have to smack you DOWN!}}
REVISED: Talk about a rude awakening–
So, as mentioned above, I’m running around my ‘hood taking pictures of the creek over-flowing its banks when I get a text. The kids DO have school, it’s just delayed one hour. a) The blasted radio AND news site had it wrong! b) VERY thankful for cell phones and the friend who thought to text us; c) my children? Let’s just say they awakened to a nightmare :).
Not-so-happy campers scrambling to get ready now; good thing Mama was dressed from her photo jaunt!
(pictures uploaded in a bit)
Oh, that IS a nightmare. Poor kiddos. Sorry about all the rain.
Our weather today is cold–always cold–with a light dusting of snow which is covering some ice which makes driving a bit hazardous and slow. They rarely cancel school around here unless, of course, it’s the last day before Winter Break and the elementary kids are looking forward to their holiday parties and the high schoolers have their last day of finals which had to be put off until the first day back (which was Monday) and which caused them to have to re-study during the last weekend of break. GRRR. (There. I feel much better getting that off my chest. Thank you very much.)
No rain cancellations here, but about half of the schools have 2 hr delays for snow/ice/freezing rain. Sadly, my school wasn’t one of them. I had to chisel my windshield this morning before I could leave. 🙂
We received about 2 inches of rain here. There is a natural spring that runs along the back of our property, then turns sharply, runs down the side of our property and feeds into a creek across the street. In a heavy rain, it’s like a small river running along our property line. My kids noticed three deer drinking from the freshly fallen water. I couldn’t help being thankful for God’s provision…
Get up, it’s time to get ready for school.
Oh, good news for you guys, you can go back to bed because school is cancelled.
Get up, it turns out school is on.
The stuff of a kid’s nightmare.
leaving a comment as ordered, miz penieve, ma’am! 😉
miz penSieve. god, my spelling today.
Did you know you live North of my neck of the woods? Those foothills turn out some interesting folks, huh?
Big Boo! on a floody winter day.
Here in Fayetteville, it’s just regular.
good things you guys got all that “jumping” practice from yesterdays post.
You can go puddle jumping, now!
Posting as ordered! Send the rain to central TX please. We’re in a serious drought…my water company wants me to use 2,000 less gallons this month, has banned all water use out of doors…and how am I supposed to use that much less water? Short of showering together my hubs and I are already water thrifts!
First the never ending drought and now the never ending rain. School here was delayed an hour too.
Portland Oregon here.. We have a lot of rain. all the time.. But for the first time in my life, we had over a foot of snow at Christmas… the entire town pretty much shuts down.. it was awful.
I just got back from CA to greater than 100mph winds. The kids’ 500lb playhouse got blown into the trampoline. Dogs and chickens all have weight belts attached to them.
I just got a call that my daughter’s school is closed tomorrow because of rain too
I used to get quite upset that kids in colder states got days off school because it was too hot – or too cold.
Here – swim to school if you must, but you go anyway!