Trapped!

So it's Monday now and we've done the hot cocoa and caroling to our neighbors thing. We played in the snow and shoveled the driveway (4 times now). We've played games and baked cookies and watched everyone in the neighborhood slide down the hill in front of our house (on foot, sleds, skis, snowmobiles, ATVs and a few brave 4WD vehicles with chains). We watched the Santa Clause 3 and several other movies. Now I'm trying to get the kids to clean their rooms and do their chores. We're getting a little tired of being snowed in.

We thought the big storm was over but we got another foot of new snow today (the blizzard conditions were gone, but the snow wasn't). It's not so fun anymore! The bunny shelter roof was about to cave in from the weight of the snow, and Sovann's car outside is so covered you can't even see the fron end. The city of Gresham has declared a state of emergency and is telling everyone to stay home. People with 4WD and chains are saying they can't get out of their driveways. AND IT'S STILL SNOWING.

Right now there are about 10 people walking down the tire tracks in the middle of the road on their way to BiMart (or Burger King?), desperate to get out of the house. Sovann is going to try to shovel his car out of the 4 ft. drifts now. I guess we are just not equipped to deal with this amount of prolonged snow. Usually the rain washes away the 2 or 3 inches after a day or so - we've been stuck for a week now. We are very lucky to still have power - the news just said there have been over 145,000 homes without power over the past week. OK, enough words. Here's the proof.