We've had a pretty wintery winter here this year for Alabama. It seems like it's been snowing off and all since the first of January.

The first week of January we got about a half inch of snow (which is a lot for us) and hubby almost didn't make it home (we live up a pretty steep hill) and we watched many others who didn't make it home walking up our street (and back down again) over the course of 2 or 3 days while they waited for the weather to warm up and the street to thaw.

Twice already this year they've freaked out and declared a winter storm before it even started snowing and closed everything in advance. And we've ended up with next to nothing or so little that it melted about as soon as they decided to close things.

So last night I watch the news and there's no forecast of snow... not for this week anyway - maybe next weekend. But this week just more rain (another thing we've seen a ton of this year). I wake up early and what do I see at 7am. Snow! No biggy we've seen it off and on all year, right. I have things to do, I have Swinger Manual's to mail. I see snow is starting to accumulate on our road and I figure I best get going before it gets bad. It always gets worse up here than anywhere else so I figure I can get down the hill to the PO and back before it gets bad, right!?

Not so much. I get to the bottom of the neighborhood and realize that the highway is covered in snow and it's coming down harder down there than it is up on my hill. I couldn't see a quarter mile in front of me. Fun. So I go to the post office where evidently everyone had the same idea I had. I get the books mailed and I head back home. The roads are worse.

Not only do I live UP a pretty steep hill but just before you turn into our neighborhood you come down a hill, so it's always fun getting turned in without worrying that someone is going to slam into the back of you. I missed the turn. Coming down the hill I couldn't get stopped and slid past my road. So I went to the next entrance and managed to get turned in. But, I didn't get much further. I made it up hill #1, barely with traction control freaking out the whole way. Got around the curve and hit hill #2 and realized quickly it wasn't going to happen. I wasn't even moving at a snails pace up that hill. So I backed back down and parked on the street. I called Pet to let him know the State of the Roads then started walking up the hill.

I got all the way home to realize I had no house key. I don't know why I have no house key but I haven't had one for a while. Not that I use one or need one very often, as usually when I'm coming home I'm in my car with my garage door opener... the garage door opener that I left in the car at the bottom of the hill. I'm home so I figure I"ll check to see if maybe just maybe a door got left unlocked... no such luck. So back down the hill I go (much easier than coming up).

On the way down I see a car going up... a car much like my own. They made it all the way up... so why can't I? So since I'm heading back down anyway, I figure I'll give it another try. I tried. I failed again. Actually didn't even make it as far up that time as I did the first time.

Figured while I was there I'd warm up a bit, so I sat in the car for a while listening to the radio wonder why the city wasn't closing things when they'd been so quick to do it the last two times it even thought about snowing. General consensus - evidently since they didn't know it was coming they figure it will pass by and melt quick? Even though it's only continued to come down harder and harder over the last couple of hours. Obviously, I finally got out of the car and walked back up the hill. Had I thought Pet's vehicle would be more likely to get up the hill than my own I would have sat in my car till he came home... but he'll be walking home too... so at least I'm warm now.