No way off the Rock

The weather has thrown us quite the stinger. While Ottawa was enjoying 25-35cm of snow, and upper Ontario was enjoying a nice dump of snow as well, St. John's was hit with some as well. Rumours had told us that usually the snow came after Christmas.. That on a normal year,it was green here until January.

Well Mother Nature had different plans.

Steph was meant to be on a plane at 3pm Sunday. Even though the roads were slick, and the snow / rain was falling, he packed his bags, and headed via taxi to the airport at 2, since the info online said the airport was still running as smoothly as possible. He was back home at 4pm with a new flight scheduled for Monday early morning. Flight was delayed and then outright cancelled. And shortly after, almost all the flights followed suit. And by 8pm, his morning flight had been cancelled. Not a good way to start a conference. After a while of checking the flights online, he started the long wait on hold. Two phones, on hold with two different numbers. By the time he got through almost all the flights were booked solid for Monday. So he got booked on the early Tuesday morning flight. Almost seconds after hanging up, power goes out. We are left in the dark in the basement with no flashlight on this floor, except for the glow from the cell phone. Got the house set up - battery powered night light in the girls room, candles in the bathroom and our bedroom, and we settled in for the long night. The worse of the night was the wind. Crazy 100km/h gusts.

And Daddy being in bed this morning didn't even phase the girls. No questioning looks, no puzzled "why are you still here?". And of course with the clocks flashing, the 2 older girls were up before 7am. And even though the snow / rain continues to fall, all the schools are open, and the buses running, so Kat went to school like normal this morning. Never was a child so excited to go to school. Was it the fact that it was gym day? Or the fact that the snowsuit was put on, and she got to stomp through the inches of sticky snow? Either way, she had a blast while waiting for the bus.

Later this morning, we will head out to try to find the driveway. It is somewhere under that snow. And the camera will be coming out to take pictures of the white sticky stuff that covers everything. There should be some good shots because of the wind blowing while it fell, so it stuck in odd places.

I hope everyone else under a pile of snow is doing well. :) And fingers crossed that Steph will make it to the conference tomorrow with no additional delays in the flights.