Our Descent into the belly of the beast- the Winter Blizzard of 2009

I have impeccable timing.

Like when we decide to go to my parents the same time the worst blizzard in 50 years shows up...

Yeah that kind of timing....








On Friday we set out for Fredericksburg, VA and on Sunday at 1 am we got to our destination.

We were casualities of the Blizzard of '09. We were originally meant to leave on Saturday morning until we got a call from my Dad on Friday morning that if we didn't go now then we wouldn't be able to.

So we threw our stuff in the car and got on the road...

And it was raining....hard...

Then we got to Knoxville and it was sleeting...

We got past Bristol and we were in a full Blizzard fearing for our lives. Going 30 miles an hour in those conditions feels like 70 mph when you've NEVER driven in snow before and you are driving up mountains and down mountains...









Then we get to Blacksburg, VA and were stopped for three hours. So I get on Twitter to see what's going on and find out from the Roanoke Times that they've shut down the interstate. (side note: they also interviewed me and included me in their story of sad sacks caught in the storm)

Sooo we are sleeping in the car... Thankfully we had almost a full tank of gas so we kept the car and heat on all night.








There isnt a lot to do in that situation except make your husband do silly things...
(see below to the Youtube channel for interesting dance moves from the hubby)

We didn't move until 11:30 am on Saturday....and more importantly we had nothing to eat except for the snacks Toby had purchased at the gas station prior to sleeping in the car.

And that didn't change. Nobody was open or came to work. So we had NO caffeine and no food and a whole another day of driving.

Nice...this will be fun.

Especially since you saw in our prior post we were already spent from expelling a pool in our basement.








So we drive and drive and drive and it's still snowing and roads are covered in snow, ice....

And we get on Ithat's d feel confident that this road will be plowed and cleared... I mean it's a major artery in the US...

Yeah not so much...

And then we hit another traffic jam. And I descended into an EPIC meltdown....

But my husband said we needed to push on....so we did.

We got off at my parents exit and then they realized their roads may not be plowed and we would have to stay at a hotel.

Sigh...

We got as far as my parents street and then we got stuck....Really stuck....

3 hours stuck....

Neighbors came to our rescue and we towed it to my parents driveway at 1 am....

We had no words between us. Most people thought these circumstances would push us to be at each others throats. But we mostly commiserated... We survived the Blizzard of 2009.

Barely....

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