Iowa Gets a Blizzard!

This is the view from our front door and back door. The fuzzy image is snow falling and being blown wildly around. It looks much worse in real life, getting whiter by the minute. (You can see the police car in the first picture; we have 2 neighbors who are policemen.)

Today we woke up to all the schools being cancelled, the interstate closing, and the winter weather advisory warning people to not travel but if you still had to, to bring a winter survival kit along in the car. My dad (a teacher, so off for the day) drove my mom to work but picked her up early as conditions (snow blowing/white outs) are getting worse as the day progresses. They saw several cars in the ditch just on the brief stretch of highway.

Because of the blizzard, the two things I had planned today didn't happen. One was a training session today for a one-day job which I was informed about through my job placement agency. Apparently a group of us are going to bid on foreclosed property next Monday. I don't know much about it yet, but I suppose that is what the training is for. The training has been postponed until tomorrow, but the winter weather advisory is not over until tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. so we'll see if it even happens.

I was also supposed to go in to work at my fine jewelry job all afternoon/evening. The mall actually closed, but my department store didn't (like anyone would willingly go out in this weather anyway), but someone who lives right in the city near the mall is going in for me (I live 25 miles away), even though I was counting on these hours. That's just the unpredictable winter, I guess! It's funny to hear that Germany is so mild this winter and hasn't had much snow, if any. I know the Midwest will always experience more winter than most of Germany, but even last winter we had a cold, slightly snowy winter there!

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