The Weather Outside is Frightful

Yesterday morning as the snow began to fall.

This morning after the storm is over.

We are still in the Texas panhandle. All week the weather prediction for Thursday was the storm of the century was to hit. We left Childress at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon and it was 66 degrees. Made it hard to believe the storm of the century was on its way. We got to Wheeler and it was cooler, about 46 degrees. That is not so unusual. In the Texas Panhandle, in January, the temperature drops of an evening when the sun goes down. Even when we left Wheeler, it was some what cooler.

We woke yesterday to not much snow and freezing temperatures. It soon began to ice and then the snow began. Slowly at first, then harder and harder all day. Marc and I had no place to be. No place to speak. It was a day off. It was a perfect day for a day off. It was a perfect day for it to snow all day. I sat by the fire to warm myself for a few minutes and then would come over to the computer and work for a few minutes. I would soon be back over near the fire. It is hard to accomplish much when you only work a few minutes at a time.

The snow stopped late last night. This morning it is bitterly cold as the storm as moved on towards Oklahoma and Arkansas. It is a beautiful morning as every thing is completely snow covered.

We were suppose to leave for Oklahoma today. We are not going anywhere today. Sadly, we will not get to see some friends that we were looking forward to seeing. We will leave for Kansas tomorrow.

We can't make it to Oklahoma, but I think we can get to Wal-Mart.

It probably was not the storm of the century, but it sure shut down everything down in the Texas panhandle.

Terri