Whew! I think we could just say we got through this past week and be done writing this list of New Things for this week. The weather here presented us with many challenges and opportunities to do things we’ve never done before. So here is our list, we’ll call it the “Snowmageddon Edition.”
Angie:
I ran an unofficial Snowmageddon Bed and Breakfast/Warming Station
I got a notification from my kids school 13 minutes prior to their closing at 10:30. I was in Hoover and needed to make it to Homewood. I knew that even on a bright sunny summer day, that wasn’t going to happen. It took me an hour and twenty minutes on 65 from 459 to the Lakeshore exit. I was THISCLOSE to being one of the many stranded on that hwy. Thankfully a parent friend picked up my kids and brought them home for me, so I was fortunate to NOT be separated from my girls.
Once we started hearing of all of the people stranded and stuck, we put a call out on social media that if you could make it to our house, you were more than welcome to stay the night(s). We had 2 the first night and 2 the second night. My husband ran his 4 wheel drive back and forth from downtown helping friends, and friends of friends and in some cases complete strangers get to somewhere warm.
We were fortunate and it felt good to help where we could.
Kristen –
Let’s see – should I do the new thing where I slept on three chairs pushed together at my office? Or the new thing where I set out to walk 8.4 miles home (Don’t worry – I ended up getting a ride most of the way with some wonderful friends – thanks, Doug and Jimmy!)? What about when I happily accepted a hat and scarf right off a woman (thank you, Beth!)? Or when I rode down Rocky Ridge Road on a four-wheeler (thank you, Stanley!)? We have all had a week of firsts and, while this weather situation may be a new thing for us all here in Birmingham, the kindness of others isn’t. Thankful and hoping to never need to do any of these new things again.
Shirley –
Driving in snow. Fail.
