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Snowed In
Hey … we’re snowed in!
Lot’s of snow yesterday and overnight, and blowing winds have drifted. The airport shut down yesterday. 
It’s 12 degrees this morning, with a sub zero windchill. I found this on the web while trying to find out about traffic conditions, and thought you might find it interesting:
Indianapolis/Marion County
• Population: 791,926
• Size: 368 square miles
• Average annual snowfall: 27 inches
• Number of lane miles in the city’s jurisdiction: 6,900
• Number of employees fighting a full-scale winter storm: 200
• 150 snow truck drivers
• 20 laborers in the garage
• 6 monitors to note progress
• 9 supervisors
• 6 office assistants
• Snow fighting equipment:
• 91 snow trucks with plows and salt spreaders
• 8 front end loaders to load salt into the trucks
• 3 1-ton dump trucks to plow parking lots
Cold!!!
It’s c o l d here friends! On the way to the office, it was -1. With windchill it was -15. Brr. 5 inches of snow. Snow is OK, but the biting cold… WOW. I’m going for a latte soon.
While the change in seasons is nice, and snow can be fun, I don’t think we will miss the mid-west weather. The high summer humidity, the spring and fall tornadoes (Indiana gets a very high percentage of them…I have a few stories to tell you), and some of the deep freezes we get in winter. This one has lasted for well over a week, with no real warm up insight.
Cars turn white with salt here when the roads get covered with snow and ice. It’s amazing. In all my travels I’ve not seen so much salt.
Hope your week is much warmer!
What Was Your Christmas Like?
What was your Christmas like? We hope it was wonderful! Here’s a photo of Andrew, Sarah, Rebekah, and Bethany near our tree, Christmas night. Our Christmas Eve started at the church we’ve attended here in Indianapolis, Aldersgate Free Methodist. We were to have Christmas brunch with some friends afterward, but one of their sons became sick, so we postponed. Instead, we came home and made our own meal, and relaxed during the afternoon.
Once it was dark, we all piled into our van with honey roasted peanuts and drove around our neighborhood and looked at lights. We returned to watch the "Muppet Christmas Carol." We started watching this 11 or 12 years ago when the kids were much younger, and every year we still enjoy this Christmas Eve tradition. (BTW, my very favorite Christmas Carol is titled "Scrooge" starring Alastair Sim –I think it has the most dramatic transformation and the redemption theme is very clear.) We closed our day with a nice time of prayer.
Christmas morning were were all up to exchange and open gifts after breakfast. Virginia prepared a great Christmas dinner, complete with Turkey and pumpkin pie! Yum! Late Christmas afternoon, we read the Christmas story from Luke 2, sang many Christmas songs as Sarah played the piano, and prayed prayers of thanks for all that this wonderful day has meant.
We prayed for you too. May this week be filled with an ongoing special sense of Jesus’ presence!