Snow storm in October? You better believe it!
I have to admit, I was pretty excited when it began to snow. The snow flakes were as big as golf balls and it was coming down one to two inches every hour! Ryley was so excited that he started licking/kissing the ground!
Not even considering the negative effects it would soon have on our trees, I started bragging to Matt that it was the best snowball fight snow because it was wet and heavy.
Our first snow in our new house was definitely one to remember!
When we woke up, the damages were unbelievable.
We had about 6-8 inches of snow, 6-8 HUGE branches fall from our trees and 4 days of no power!
It was nearly impossible to sleep the night of the storm! Every few minutes, we could hear another branch snapping, tree falling or power line/transformer buzzing and blowing up.
You can see the tree in our backyard is dropping over from the heavy snow caked on top. We couldn't let Ryley use the backyard until the snow melted because branches would snap with the slightest gust of wind.
Our neighbor's tree was almost stripped to the trunk!
Our block was a complete mess! Trees were laying across power lines and on top of houses.
Our neighbor across the street had a tree laying on their roof and power lines dropping to the ground!
It was a record breaking storm for Connecticut. About 850,000 people were without power! Check out all of the towns in black! Cheshire lost 100% power!
Not only did we break power outage records and snow fall records, we also broke freezing temperature records! During our four nights of no electricity, the temperatures when down into the 20s! The house would go down to about 50 degrees at night!
We brought mattresses into the warmest place in the house, in front of the fireplace. It was funny to have a sleepover in our own house!
Poor Ryley tried staying warm too! He cuddled up in between us and laid under all the covers.
We were completely unprepared for this storm and had little to no food in the house. We never thought that our town and the towns around us would be shut down for days! To get food, we had to travel about 30 minutes south to find open Dunkin Donuts and McDonalds. Most only accepted exact change but we found one that still had electricity! I even had to go to a shelter to shower!
It felt like a war zone outside. Helicopters swarmed above assessing damage, smoke filled the air from all of the burning fireplaces, caution taped was wrapped everywhere and chainsaws and generators were humming nonstop.
When the power finally came back on, we had to empty the entire fridge and restock the essentials!
Thankfully, the snow melted pretty quickly. You better believe that Ryley hung on to every last heap! The week off from school was a nice break but will certainly have it's consequences. Five snow days before Thanksgiving is not a good way to start the winter!
