Now, that's cold

As we awaited the snow and cold on Sunday, we hadn't really anticipated that we'd be housebound for the next couple days.  I have produced no good snow pictures - none of Ellie happily running it in, none of neighborhood kids running around or their parents taking a break from the shoveling to stand at the bottom of the driveways and talk about it.

None.

We were in the house, altogether, on Sunday and Monday.  Didn't so much as walk to the mailbox.  Bill went out once on Sunday to clear the driveway of the soon to be 9.5 inches of snow.  But ultimately it didn't matter.  The wind and cold proved a much tougher foe than the snow.

We're glad Santa brought board games this Christmas.  We've played a lot of them in the last few days.

On Monday we were under a nearly state-of-emergency as all the schools, many government offices and business, as well as the entire State Farm Corporate HQ were closed.  Closed.  Wow!  And the issue was that the roads were not passable with the drifting snow.  This was affectionately termed, Snowpocolypse by many of use posting on social media to reference the frenzy.

Here's the best shot I got over the past few days that represents what life was like here in Bloomington!