Our early year blizzard is over.

DeLarla, you would have loved this one. Blizzards this time of year are cool because they can be nasty but you know they won't be real cold and will melt. Blizzards in January when the wind chill is 80 below zero and means days without electricity and heat and months before the snow melts are not fun.

Alatina, are you out there? I saw Langdon got 15 inches of snow. This must be a treat for a Texan. Hope you are well and stayed warm - do you have electricity and heat yet?

Anyone else want to come enjoy a storm - plan for January - those are better. Celeste

Oh gosh, wasn't that the roughest storm ever. I'm in the Turtle Mountains right now. We got so much snow & the kids are on their 3rd day without going to school. That means school free for 6 days in total because there isn't school on Monday and my sister runs a daycare...so can you imagine how crazy it is here right now. *LOL.*

My brother in law left his vehicle in Minot, and my brother called to tell him that there was a big ol' tree sitting on top of it the next morning!

I've lived here for 28 years and I've never seen anything like it. We were out of electricity from 12:30 p.m Wednesday, to 7:00 a.m. Thursday. Kinda makes one appreciate what they do have. It was pretty fun though, we stayed warm, but I'm sure any longer we would have gotten pretty cold. My parents were telling us stories of how they used to live like that when we were younger. They made it sound so easy. *LOL*

Well, my fellow North Dakotans, bundle up. They say it's going to be a long winter. We didn't even get to enjoy our Fall season! That sucks. Ahh well, this is an unpredictable state though isn't it. Expect the unexpected, as they say.

Joelle, I'm sure I could swap stories with your parents. (and I'm probably their age). When I was in grade school, every home in town with school children was designated as a snow home for the school kids that rode the bus. Instead of letting school out early or cancelling, they kept all the kids in town to overnight at their snow home at any sign of bad weather.

It was always neat to cook hotdogs and popcorn over the fireplace the first time electricity went out but after a day it got old...

Ah, those weren't the good old days...Celeste