Arctic Blast 2008

That's what they've been calling it anyways. All I know is that it resulted in a lot more snow and ice than has been seen in Portland since maybe the '50s. We were basically stuck at home for days on end. Becks managed to get to work last week by walking a mile to a transit center and taking a bus into downtown and then coming home by walking a mile after getting off the bus. Luckily this week was a scheduled week off for him, so he didn't have to work!

So Arctic Blast 2008 = No church for a couple of weeks, no driving without chains, no leaving the house for us as we don't own chains, no trips to the grocery store, no frantic shopping trips for Christmas, no visiting of friends, no real hustle and bustle that the holiday season usually brings, no mail. But it also = lots of time spent with family, playing games, reading, creating, organizing, baking, plotting an escape and a very white Christmas. It has been an interesting couple of weeks.

Our house buried in about a foot of snow.

Ezra out for a walk around the block. Making sure to stay in the tire ruts.

Ezra doing his part to help with snow removal in the driveway.

The near empty shelves we found at the grocery store when we finally made our escape yesterday.