Joey’s mom sent us this picture last night.  This a view of their back patio after almost a full day of snow and, notice, it is still snowing.

Joey and I can’t remember what this is, but we think it’s a table on the back patio.  I don’t think it’s a Weber grill, because I don’t remember them having one.  It’s 12 inches of snow, though.

ONE FOOT.

That’s so much snow that it would get over the top of my bright blue boots that I haven’t gotten to wear in three years.

Iowa is so cool.

I don’t think it has stopped snowing yet, either.  At least in Cedar Rapids, where I’m from, Pops told me it wasn’t supposed to stop until noon today, and that it was a full-fledged blizzard with gusty winds and dangerous conditions.  Naturally Joey and I looked at the clock and thought “gosh, if we started driving now we could make it by…”

But then we remembered what it was like when we got caught in a whiteout last Thanksgiving on the way to his parents’ house, and we reconsidered.  It was the scariest thing that’s ever happened to us, no joke.

Anyway, we are really sad to miss the blizzard.

All of you whiny Iowa people who are all I hate this snow! this morning, you should remember that if you lived in Texas you’d never even SEE snow.  So appreciate it with some hot chocolate for about ten minutes on our behalf, and then get back to your whining.

kthx.