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No school for the kids, and no work for me today. If they hadn't given me the day off, I would have called in. Shoveling was freaking brutal, and I need a day off after all that.
We ended up hosting one neighborhood family because they had lost power and we still had ours. It was fun, but also a little tiring to play host to them with little notice. We stayed up late with the grownups playing euchre. That was fun.
And then another neighbor and I shoveled the driveway of the little old lady behind us. She has a long driveway, and to make it harder, the neighbor next to the old lady asked us nicely not pile pile any snow on their property as we were shoveling. So we had to carry all the snow to the one side and throw it up onto a hill. If you didn't throw it far enough, it would roll back down into the driveway. This neighbor was afraid of huge piles of melting snow flooding their basement. So I see their point, but it sucked.
The county did a great job (by our standards down here) clearing the snow. Within 24 hours of the snow ending, you could see the pavement on our little residential street. Much better than in years past, where they never plowed and we just had to wait for it to melt.
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