Snow Adventure

What started out as an innocent shopping trip yesterday morning became a really exciting and slightly nerve wracking adventure that lasted over 3 hours.

Cari and I went shopping early yesterday morning. For the record, there was no snow on the ground when we left around 9:15am, and the weather people were saying we were only supposed to get less than 1 inch of snow that day. So we figured we could go out, shop for a couple hours, and come back around lunch time and be fine. I mean really, this is GEORGIA, people!!!

Well, it started snowing pretty good around 11am, so we started heading home. We were only about 45 minutes away, but after seeing two bad wrecks within a span of 5 minutes, we were crawling along the highway very cautiously. We made it back to our town fine, and drove through on a salted road, but by the time we got to the roads outside of town that we had to travel on, they were covered in snow, and they had already been packed down to ice. We pulled over at a gas station to wait for my dad and Clint to come pick us up.

It took them at least a half hour to drive the roads, which normally takes about ten minutes. And apparently, there were cars off the road everywhere because of all the curves on the road and all the hills. Thankfully, they made it fine, picked us up, and we took off back home. At first, the police wouldn't let us through, because it was so dangerous. Finally, they started letting people through after a salt truck came through. We still got stuck on the way back and had to get out and push the car. We made it about 2 miles from home, but then encountered a hill that was too steep to go on, so we had to leave the car and walk home.

All in all, I think we got about 3 inches, and it's slick stuff. It was definitely a bit scary to see what happens when you get a bunch of Southern drivers on a set of curvy roads without any snow chains or salt on the roads. What fun!

We did have a lot of fun playing in it yesterday afternoon (we went sledding down our driveway and down the road that leads to our house!).

But I guess I am just really grateful for God's protection and provision for us yesterday. If Cari and I had tried to drive all the way back on our own, I'm pretty sure we would've ended up in the ditch. I'm so grateful for God getting us home safely and for having a warm house with lots of food to keep us until the snow melts.

Snow! It doesn't look like much because we were sledding on the driveway yesterday and made it all icy :)