We're back in, and dry!

We're back in our house. We turned our water and power back on. MDU came and re-lit out pilot lights so we have heat and warm water again. I got to unplug the drains. I do have to say that oatmeal-filled nylons are a great drain plug. 

The street is dry. Very icy. But dry.

Our neighbors said a snow/ice plow came by at about 3 am (I imagine that would have been VERY VERY noisy). This is very obvious by the large mountain of ice in our driveway. It got down to about 10°F last night, so the ice is ROCK hard. We can't even begin to think about driving into our driveway right now. There is so much ice. We picked up a metal shovel and heavy hoe thing and 80 pounds of rock salt ... hopefully those will work to clear our driveway.

We're so thankful to be back in a dry house. We're going to keep the sandbags around until the snow is all melted. Thank you to everyone who helped with the city sandbag efforts, to all our family and friends, especially my grandparents and Chad and Tara. Thank you!!!

I'm going to get a ride out to work very soon. Corey's going to take my car to work. Tonight we've got some major "stuff" moving to do. Our house is all mixed up - there's stuff everywhere!