12.5 Inches!

Friends,

As you probably know by now, on Thursday Fort Worth received an all time record of 12.5 inches of snow. Now, to you readers that live in places that regularly “get” snow, that doesn’t sound like much, but really all of Texas is ill-prepared for snow over about an inch. I will say it was absolutely gorgeous and much fun for us, but had some negative consequences, which I will share after this photo of the Water Gardens I took from our hotel room:










































First, as I feel sure you have deduced, we had to spend two nights away from home. Our power was out for about 40 hours, and left our home useless. Cosby was glad to be inside, and we checked on him regularly. The first night the roads were terrible, so our only option was to stay in a nearby hotel, which was nice, but was totally unexpected. We did have a nice meal, though, and turned it into a kind of pre-Valentines celebration. The next day, the roads were much better, but it was super snowy still, and our power was still out - so we spent the entire day at the two Barnes and Noble’s bookstores here in town. (The Fort Worth Public Library was closed) We checked on Cosby a couple of times, and then had to go stay the night at our uncle Doug’s house (Thanks Doug). Our kind neighbors, Amber and John also were without power, and checked on Cosby as well as gave up power updates, and got us out of the snow the first night (thanks guys, and Joe!)

Anyhow, the power is back on and all is back to semi-normal. Just thought you might like an update!

Jason