Before I took Karisa in for a chiropractor visit at 4:30 on Tuesday, Jan 6, I had been outside playing fetch with our dog, Bitsy. I did a wild left hand shot that sent the ball onto the roof of our house. So the ball stuck up there much to Bitsy's chagrin. I told her sorry and took her in the house. We were pretty much a winter wonderland with 4 inches of snow on top of frozen ice from an earlier thaw then freeze before the latest snow. After the chiropractor visit (Karisa had a rib out earlier causing chest pain and breathing difficulties) a- and , there was this free stuffed animal by the front door to the chiropractor ( a stuffed stork in a vampire cape with vampire teeth that the chiropractor no longer wanted and which Karisa took) and other errands - bought gas at Safway for 1.68 per gallon and got some bread from the bread outlet store, we came home. A warm wind had picked up. And guess what? The snow on the roof had all melted and the ball was on the ground.
The whole street turned into a slushy waterway. I stepped out and tried to take a picture of the neighbors' Christmas lights reflected in the water on the road. It was pretty, especially when the wind blew. We went from cold - 30 some degrees to 52 in 1/2 hour.
Now all the snow and ice is melted except for the last little bit of our snowman. The wind blew pretty good and we kept hearing knocking and banging of windows - we have the single pane aluminum windows , our house is a '72 house, and we didn't sleep too well Tuesday night.
I picked up a whole lot of branches from the trees off the back yard but nothing too big the next morning. We're just glad we live on a hill and only had 4 inches of snow to melt. We worry about Spokane. But then we found out that the ward preisthood has been called to help in Ellensburg. All roads to Seattle were closed and there was a foot of water in the Perkins Restaraunt with hundreds of stranded trucks.
So that's our experience with this crazy weather. It gives one something to talk about. Almost all my Seminary students still showed up. Monday the church parking lot was very icy. Today it's just wet.