March 2003

Oh my, this was really crazy!  The biggest storm to hit Colorado since 1913 hit this month and what a storm it was.  Over 6 feet of snow, wet heavy snow, hit our house.  John was skiing to find trees he could cut down so we had a fire!  Luckily John bought a small generator and was able to keep one pellet stove going, although he had to go out every hour (all day and all night) to fill it with gas.  We lost power (which at our house includes water - yikes) at 6am Wednesday and were restored Saturday at noon.  Fortunately for us, our wonderful neighbors helped us out.  One family brought groceries and a warm pizza to us (we couldn't get out of the driveway, 500 feet of 6 foot deep snow), and another came and rescued us and brought us to a wonderful hotel where we could shower and feel normal again.  We are so very lucky to live by such great people.  Check out the front end loader that had to clear our driveway - that guy was making a nice little profit that day in our neck of the woods!  But we made it and now have fun stories to tell but we are a little shell-shocked and every time we see a snowflake we start firing up the cars!!