Monday night got smacked with snow/high wind blizzard. Not much out of the norm for winter here. Only 7", but wind of 36mph sustained, 50-70mph gusts had all roads in SW Kansas closed. Dumb people stranded all over. All kinds of power outages. I got lucky, my power kept blinking but stayed on. East side of town was out for 4-5 hrs, west of me across the road was out 24hrs.
I dummied up when i took the dog out before bed. Had to push the storm door thru the 2' drift to get 14" of squeeze thru. I don't know why i shut it, it couldn't swing out in the wind. Just had my flannel on for dogs quick last pee. Got back to door.... damn button on the handle was froze solid. I beat on it with my frozen fist for 5 mins, i don't have my phone, my keys to the other doors and pick up keys are all in the house. Didn't think that thru very well🙄 finally got hands warm enough to beat on handle again, it finally popped in and back in i got! Warming my hands under shirt, i'm wondering if my neighbors are even home or if they left there garage walk in open. Won't make that mistake again😁 I hope!
Tuesday afternoon the township motor grader (big John Deere) all chained up w/V snow plow tried getting down my buddy Tom's road. Didn't get far, he went back and got the high loader. 20 mins in he made it 40 feet.
Stopped in the new Dollar General west of me today, they were among the 24hr off. They lost $120k worth of cooler/freezer food. I told her a back up generator would have been a whole lot cheaper. She said... but the Gov't emergency disaster fund would pay for the loss🙄 No wonder the Gov't spends so much of our tax money.