It’s been interesting here in South Jersey/Burlington County (right on the line of Camden County).
Started snowing last night and continued all day today (still snowing). High winds during the night and most of the day but pretty good right now. We woke up to snow drifts (half our yard towards the house, couldn’t even open the door to get outside but other half of yard was ok).
My husband went out this morning and shoveled and “snow blowed” for 4 hours, doing our driveway and next door neighbor widow’s driveway - we store her snowblower and do her drive and sidewalk. He came in sore and proceeded to vomit and has been in bed since then. We sent the 3 of our 4 daughters out to continue shoveling out the cars on the street and the driveway and neighbor’s drive. They were out for about 2 hours.
Our township treated our roads starting Wednesday, again Thursday and Friday, and plows have been coming through every 8 hours or so. I haven’t seen a car drive down our street since about 8 this morning.
One daughter went to her boyfriend’s house (parent’s house about 2 miles from here) last night and probably won’t be home until Monday, maybe tomorrow night if we don’t get much more snow. Another’s boyfriend walked here a couple of hours ago.
We haven’t lost power yet (although some in our town have) so watching movies, etc. I just finished my lesson plans for the week and printed all the needed materials. Made Pastina soup and grilled cheese for lunch and making tacos and spanish rice for dinner in about a half hour.
I watched some videos of OC and Wildwood and Margate and seems they are getting hammered with flooding.
Glad to see you’re doing ok as well.
If you have not already done so, you might want to call your doctor or local ER and discuss the vomiting. Also make sure your husband is not dehydrated. Give warm water, and perhaps make some broth with chicken and vegetables to restore electrolytes. In fact if you have any rehydration solution or Gatorade type liquid, that would be good. They had a report this morning from a doctor saying it was a bad idea to have two cups of coffee and then go out and dig because dehydration was likely.
How is your husband doing? Still in bed and vomiting?
You need to watch him closely. Not to be an alarmist but sometimes vomiting can be more than just a stomach bug, especially after physical exertion.
Wow, I hope your husband is all right. Haven’t even begun to shovel — just couldn’t face it. There are drifts up against both doors front and back. Went out and cleared off the steps to put out bird seed, under an overhang, but even with the overhang, the seed kept getting covered up and they were pecking down into the snow. Poor lil critters. It’s one of my favorite things about snow days, though, getting to see the really pretty birds close up. Bluejays, cardinals, woodpeckers, doves, sparrows, and the food fights with them and the squirrels are a sight to behold. I try to separate them by putting some seed under the steps and some on top, and that seems to help.
The streets haven’t even been plowed, and it’s a hilly, winding road, so... Our church will be closed today, anyway.
There was a great sale on Progresso soup last week, and I’m also set for grilled cheese, bacon and eggs, fruit, salad, applesauce, jelly, bread, pork chops, meatballs, lemonade, coffee, chocolate, quinoa, rice, beans, avocados, pasta, ricotta, yogurt, olives, nuts, frozen pizza, oatmeal — there is even enough toilet paper, and the power’s still up, so nothing to fear. The only scary thing is falling down.
Guess it will be shoveling time when the sun gets high.
Hope all is well with you and glad to hear your daughters were out helping with the snow!! It’s polenta with bolognese gravy weather!