So most of you realize I live in the Sunny South where we mostly get cold rain or, occasionally, icky icy stuff. However, holy snowballs, peeps! Take a look:

So it begins...this is about 8 pm. Pardon the ugly curbie - he's actually a good frame of reference.



This is around 11 pm!



And Monday morning!



This is on my back deck as far out as I could reach, so the snow was actually deeper out in the middle. Yikes!



Officially the total was 8.9 inches, according to the airport. O_O

Labels: life, SNOW, storm, yikes

Yes, I know I've been missing in action from here and from visiting my peeps online (I've been on Twitter, I swear, just not as much). *hangs head* I'm already the world's laziest blogger but I've been bad, even for me. BUT I have good reasons for my distractions - visual evidence:

First came the hail -




See that big piece of hail? It's actually a bunch of small pieces all clumped together - I've never seen hail like that before! And I still haven't taken my car to be checked (because, of course, I was driving home from work during part of the hail storm).


Then came the lighting (which encountered one of my trees) -


(ignore the funky pinkness, my camera has a weird sensor that will be replaced soon)



Which led to -






And then, just when things were mostly taken care of (insurance adjusters finished, tree cleaned up, roof estimates in, etc.) - TORNADO!! Okay, probably straight line winds associated with a tornado, but still...




Final count - two of my trees down (one of which landed on the corner of my neighbors' house - but they had at least two of their trees on their house, too, poor things. My tree was the least of their problems. Plus, one of my back neighbors' trees hitting my fence.


So, my peeps, you can see why I've been distracted. >.< Add in a family wedding shower and a visit from my mother and you get even moar distraction! But things are mostly calm now - yard cleaned up again, roofers still scheduled to come in a couple of weeks - so I should be back to the regular neglect of my blog, visiting all my peeps I haven't been visiting and finishing the reviews I've started.

What's been going on with everyone else??

Labels: life, storm, yikes