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Blizzard of 2010

February 19, 2010 by

images8On Friday the 5th was when it all started. The boredom, the isolation, the bitter cold and ofcorse the snow. It started right when it was time to leave school ofcorse just my luck. All the other schools got out early except cape but now I’m happy we didn’t get out of school early. Because when I got off the bus at about 4:00 pm it was starting to snow pretty badly. I didn’t think much about it thinking it would calm down. But again I was wrong. When I woke up on Saturday morning the snow was waste deep and impossible to get out of the front door. The cars where covered and buried in the snow u could hardly see them at all, they were surrounded by 5 feet snow drifts. That’s when I knew it was going to be a LONG weekend. I never knew it would last 10.

By the second day of being trapped and isolated inside we could finally manage to get outside to the front door to shovel the snow. And by then I was going insane from being stuck inside and away from my friends. Shoveling the porch took about two hours and we haven’t even got to the drive way yet. My face burning and fingers freezing from the cold it felt good to go inside and thaw out for a couple hours. Sleeping off the bitter cold that surrounded me for hours in my warm comfy bed. Waking up sore and stiff from shoveling snow I really didn’t want to shovel no more. But with my bad luck it started snowing again a couple days later. So I had to go out and shovel the new snow and the snow from the last storm. As we finished shoveling the drive way I was about sick and tired of all of this darn snow. My pop pop had to leave for work that day when we finished with the drive way. He got out the driveway just fine but only to get stuck in the road. So again we had to grab the snow shovels and dig him out the road. Oh joy.

I was starting to think the shovel would freeze to my hands from shoveling so much. By the time we finally got him back in the drive way it felt like I was tackled my fat football player. My muscles where so sore. Even though I was sore and stiff I felt like one of the lucky ones cause through all of this we always have had electricity but my cousin who lived just around the corner on the next street lost her electricity for 2 days. And if not loosening electricity was bad enough some peoples roofs where falling in. people were going into shelters due to lack of heat, or food. I felt lucky that nothing bad has happened to me. Because other people had more worried than just being sore from shoveling snow. But to pass the time of endless isolation and being bored I just texted people, read my book and draw. I was so happy when we got back to school and out of my house. I missed my friends, my teacher and even the work. I really hope we never have a blizzard like that again.

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