Straight from the Hart: Snowpocolypse 2014

This past winter was long for everyone including us down here in Alabama! Having lived in Florida our whole lives, Shawn and I did not know what to expect especially since we still live in the deep south.

January 28th, 2014 was one CRAZY day! The southern snowpocolyse made National headlines and painted quite a picture for Birmingham and Atlanta.

To sum up our day...Shawn stayed at work after they closed the office because he could see from his office window that people were just sliding all over the hills (Birmingham has quite a lot of hills!). He decided to stay until it looked better. Maddie and I were out and ended up getting stuck in the middle of the road. After getting out of the ice I decided to pull into the nearest parking lot which happened to be the library. We sat in the car for a few hours until Shawn called me and said that the Rec center near by was open as a shelter. I bundled up, put Maddie in the stroller, and started the walk to the Rec center in the 18 degree cold....brrr. The people there were so nice. They had made pizza for everyone and had a whole nursery area for kids to play. We ended meeting other moms there and made friends. :) Just before dark, Shawn decided to come get us at the Rec center. We had no one to take care of Noah, so we decided to make a run for it and attempt to get home. We managed to get into our neighborhood (about 2 miles from home), but there was no way we could go any further. We parked Shawn's truck, bundled up, and started our walk home (2 miles in the snow and up hill....no joke!). Not even 5 minutes into our walk a man on a 4 wheeler pulled up and offered to take us home. It was the greatest feeling ever! We finally managed to get home about 7:30pm. The entire city was shut down for the next two days. The temperature didn't get above freezing and Birmingham does not have snow plows and salt to treat all the roads, so everyone was just stuck where they were. Luckily, we made it home and got to enjoy some snow the next day.

In February we had another snow, but luckily everyone learned from the previous storm and things closed ahead of time. We enjoyed watching the snow fall from the inside of our house with the fire on. :)