Snowed In

This has been a winter to remember! We have been snowed in 3 times. The first time was on Christmas Eve. We decided to go home to my parents on Christmas Eve, even though nobody else made it home because of the storm. My grandma actually cancelled our Christmas celebration, thats how bad it was! My faithful Dodge Ram can bust quite a few drifts so we set out and made it home. Thanks to my truck, several people in Concord got to go to church on Christmas Eve:) There were only about 20 of us that could make it, but it was worth it! On Christmas morning we decided to try to make it home. But, I ran into a 7 foot tall drift that was 60 feet long. My truck went in about 5 feet. Whoops. I was scared we were going to get hit by a snowplow and I started to panic which is unusual for me. By the Lord's grace I had seen a huge tractor about a 1/4 mile back parked outside of a house when we drove by earlier. I called my parents and they called the farmer. He could not see me but he came and pulled us out. It was a white out. He later told my brother that we were in quite a sorry state when he found us:) I wish I had pictures. We were able to drive back to my Grandma's house and stay with her on Christmas day. The roads were closed for 2 days so we had a special long Christmas holiday with Grandma. My cousins live 2 houses down from my Grandma so they came over too and we had Ost Kaka. In fact, Grandma had food for 30 people prepared and it was now in the freezer, so we had our traditional Ham Ball Christmas meal. I learned a few things... Don't be stupid because you can die in a blizzard. When the news says the roads are impassable, sometimes they are telling the truth. And that God chose to faithfully take care of us even when I was a total idiot! It was no coincidence that this farmer was at the place he was with his huge tractor. He chose to drive it 6 miles to go to his brothers to celebrate Christmas- If he hadn't who knows what would have happened. I can smile now, but I won't forget Christmas 2009.