snow storm?

our front yard, the kids had fun playing.  this is more snow than this area is used to.

our buckeye tree all glistening with snow and ice last night.

i guess i really am a cleveland at heart, because life here in columbus has shut down for 2 (two) days for a snow storm that landed about 6" on the ground.  granted, there was a nice layer of ice packed in the middle, but still, not that bad.

jonny didn't have school yesterday, and i didn't think anything about school being cancelled today, so off we went to the bus stop.  we got there and were told that school was cancelled again!  i had no idea!

so we headed back home!  i still had to run a few errands, so the kids went to their friend's house down the street and i went out.  here's what the street looked like- 24 hours AFTER the snow stopped falling:

i don't know where the problem lies, the city not owning ANY snowplows, or the drivers are part of a union and they only plow streets that lead to their house, or everyone has chains on their tires and they don't care that there are 6 inches of snow on the street.

so i went to the first store, totally rediculous that nothing was plowed!  and as i headed to my second stop, the roads suddenly became clear, right about when i left my county.  

MIRACLE!  the streets were totally clear, traffic was moving normally.  granted i didn't see any snowplows, but that's probably because they had already done their job YESTERDAY so they were at home sipping hot cocoa.

stop #2 done successfully, no problems.  driving home:

as soon as i entered my county, the streets were covered.  litterally, if you drew a line from the sign on the road for the county, it went from clear street to 6 inches of snow.

totally ridiculous!