What day is today? Ah yes. Thursday. This week is a blur - of time and white. Monday night began the week's big adventure. And I can't lie, it's been pretty fun! I'm sure most of you know, maybe because of your own blizzard and below zero temps in your own town, but Tulsa got slammed on Monday night and most of the day Tuesday with a good ole fashioned prairie blizzard. Now we are enjoying sub-zero temps with a sub-sub-zero wind chill.
My roommate, Chenea, and I were supposed to be out of our townhouse by this Saturday. This last Sunday seemed like a better, more available time for people to help me move, so that's when we moved most of my stuff over. Chenea and I were going to spend the week in our mostly empty place, just because our lease wasn't up until Sat., but when we heard about the bad weather rolling in, our plans changed. Chenea's parents came with her and they got all of her stuff out on Monday night. I decided to go spend the night at my new place, and am I ever glad I did that!!! Work was cancelled and has been all week. Tomorrow will be my 4th day of not working.
Ari, the girl I'm sharing a room with, at my new house, just started her pediatric rotation this month, so she got up early Tues. morning and left before the snow got bad. Coming back was a different story. She called the other roomates (Rebecca and Sylvia) and I to tell us she was stuck out on our road and could we come push? So we layered up and went out to dig her out and push. I had measured that afternoon and we had gotten 13 inches of snow. Of course Tulsa is fairly unprepared for a storm of this magnitude, so the poor little side roads don't get plowed. We got her out and she parked down closer to a main road and then walked back to the house.
Wednesday, Rebeeca, Sylvia, and I shoveled out our driveway with a regular snow shovel, a snow/garden shovel, a push broom and a rake. We also shoveled on the road to clear the way to get out and had to shovel a path behind my car that's been parked on the road. Then we had to dig out my car. There was a massive drift at/on the front of my car that was 3 or 4 feet deep. All of this shoveling took us 3-4 hours. The lower snow was very wet and heavy, so today all of us are pretty sore!
Besides shoveling, I've been unpacking and squaring away my stuff that I'd moved over, working Beth Moore's Esther Bible study, eating, spending a lot of time on the phone with AT@T :(, spending time on facebook, and watching a couple of movies. Last night Sylvia and I ventured out to Wal-Mart. The roads were horrible! I guess that's why most places of business have been closed this week. Tomorrow I'm going to try to go to my townhouse and finish clearing everything out and turn in my keys.
I'm so thankful to be in a warm, cozy house this week with a nice chance to get to know my new roomates and get settled in. More to come on a description of my new living situation. I love being in a house!
