Snow, Glorious Snow!

We had a surprise snowfall over the weekend. It started Saturday morning and continued through Sunday evening. All in all, I'd say we got about 8 inches at the house.

This came as wonderful news to our Alicia May. She's been chomping at the bit to go sledding!

We went after church and her nap yesterday. I thought about taking her to Eagle River to sled on the nice hill near the playground. But it was about 2:30 by the time she woke up from her nap, so I didn't think she'd appreciate wasting valuable daylight hours trying to drive the 8 snow-covered miles to Eagle River. So we just went sledding in our sloped front yard.

It was probably for the best. As I said, the snow was unexpected (well, except for the fact that we live in Alaska and it's mid-November...). At any rate, despite the obvious fact that snow should always be expected around here at this time of year, there were clearly many folks who didn't plan accordingly to drive in this sort of precipitous event.

Stephen had drill in Wasilla on Saturday. He said the Glenn Highway was like a junkyard with cars, trucks, and SUV's just lined up in the median and snow banks along the road's edge. Even when he drove in to Eagle River last night to pick Donald up from work, there were many cars flipped over in the snow. According to the Anchorage Daily News, yesterday had a record number of accidents (146) and ditch-divers (86) in the Anchorage area.

You can see that story at www.adn.com/news/alaska/anchorage/story/9449004p-9360486c.html.