On Sunday, January 5th, we got the biggest snow storm I think we have seen since we've lived here. We got somewhere around a foot of snow. I have heard anywhere from 10 inches to 15 inches, so I just call it 12. This was on top of about 5 inches we had received a few days earlier. Being from the west, it was hardly the biggest snow storm we have seen, but it was a lot of snow. It all came on Sunday over an 11 hour period-about an inch per hour. It was heavy and wet which made for great snowball fights and snowman building. Chloe loves a good snowball fight! Church was cancelled and as you can tell from the picture you can't even see the street so we weren't going anywhere. Grocery stores were packed for two days leading up to this storm and ran out of milk, bread, eggs, fresh produce, etc. I heard some stores even ran out of chips. We had milk and bread in the house so I really didn't do any special shopping. I grabbed a few extra snacks and that was about it.
The snow was only the first part of the storm. Sunday night through Tuesday temperatures dropped to -15 with a wind chill of -40. With heavy wet snow, extreme temps and high wind, we were worried about losing power. It flickered a few times late Sunday night, but other than that it was fine. Many people in Fishers and throughout Indy did loose power so we were lucky. We took precautions to keep out pipes from freezing and even though it ran continuously for 2 days, the heater kept our house at the 68 degrees it was set at. Jordan's work was closed Monday and Tuesday. We finally ventured out of the house Tuesday night to go out to eat. The restaurant we chose was closing early because they were out of food. Their supply truck was coming from Chicago, but the highway from here to Chicago was closed, so they didn't have what they needed. We found some place else to eat. School was out the whole rest of the week making for a 3 week long Christmas Break. Temperatures went back to normal by Wednesday but they just didn't have the streets cleared enough, esp the neighborhoods, to bus kids to school. It became the joke in our house of how many days DOES it take Indy to clear 12 inches of snow? On Friday morning 4.5 days since it had stopped snowing, they cancelled school! The cold weather is really what set it back. They plowed, but they use salt and other chemicals to melt that last inch or so of snow that gets packed onto the roads and it was too cold for it to work. We had snow packed roads, even the busy ones, until Thursday. They never did "fix" the neighborhoods. Finally, on Friday it warmed up to 40 degrees, rained, and melted away the rest of the snow on the streets. We got in some good sledding and snowman making/for building throughout the week.
Snowman they built with our neighbors.
Snow fort.
This is our snow woman! FYI--Jolly Ranchers make great snowman faces for a few minutes, then they begin to melt into your snowman. It looked like our snow woman was bleeding. It probably would have tasted good though!
Mason keeping warm. I should have put him in his snowsuit and put him in the snow for a picture, but I never did it.
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