The Storm Begins
The next night we had the biggest snowfall in recorded history for a 24-hour period in the City of Longmont. 24 inches fell in less than 24hours. Streets were impassable, businesses and schools were closed, and few people went to work that next day. As the biopsy was considered minor surgery, I was on lifting restrictions for 2 weeks. I was not supposed to lift anything over 15#. As you can imagine this made it difficult to shovel two feet of snow. My mother had spent the night in Boulder with one of her clients because of the storm. Jes and I were at home with Jacob and Ashlee. We went out and started to dig out.
I was able to push a shovel full of snow but was unable to to lift it with just my right hand. Consequently, Jes ended up doing most of the work. Once we got the driveway cleared and Jesses SUV unburried, we decided to use it and worry about my car later. We left Jacob at home with Ashlee and headed out to check on the beauty salon. Jes called to cancel any clients who had not already called to cancel. We headed across to the other side of town and she dropped me off at the grocery store, where I worked as a cake decorator.
I arrived at work about 2 hours later than usual, as soon as I walked in my coworkers told me I had better get my staples as the store was already running low on Milk, Bread and eggs. Since we did not know when the next truck would get to Longmont from Denver I decided to pick up what we needed as well as some extra things for the neighbors and a family friend who was unable to get out on her own. We all pitched in together at work to make up for the people who were unable to get to work. The entire store was running with about half our usual staff. Boy were people grumpy! Whenever there is a storm people usually flock to the store. The people who were able to get out were like “locust” they were buying every thing they could get their hands on. When we run out of something people, have a fit. Some people seem to think that there are trees growing in the back of the store and we just go out and pick cartons of milk and loaves of bread off as needed. They do not seem to understand that we depend on trucks arriving several times daily to bring items into the store, when that does not happen we run out fast!
After work, Jes picked me up and we stopped by our friend Bobbies with some of the grocerys I had picked up. When I got home I found that Jes, Ashlee and some of her friends had finished shoveling the drive and dug out my car as well as Ashlees. Mom arrived from Boulder shortly after and we all sat down to dinner.
The “farmers Almanac” had accurately predicted the storm and they were predicting seven more storms over the next 7weeks.
All of the storms came to pass but fortunately, not all of them were as dramatic as the first.
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