Flashback Friday

Twenty years ago today, we had one of the biggest snowstorms ever to hit Louisville.  We awoke on this day twenty years ago to find 18+ inches of snow.  And the day before, they were just calling for a dusting to maybe a trace of snow.  Boy were we fooled. 

We woke up to now power.  Mom, Dad and I bundled up and trudged out in the foot and a half snow to bring in firewood to get the fireplace going.  Dad had just got the fire roaring and Mom had put the grate inside and had the coffee pot on, when we heard the faint sound of a car horn in the distance.  Then we looked out and saw the faint beams of car headlights, and before we knew it, our company CEO/old friend Uncle Don was pulling in the driveway to take me to work.  

Uncle Don came in the house and sat down and had a cup of coffee, and then got a grocery bag and started filling it with food from our pantry.  He looked at me and said "Are you going to wear that to work?"  Never mind I had called him the night before and told him that if the roads were bad, to not stop by to take me to work.  I quickly put on jeans and a sweatshirt and after we had our provisions, we headed out to the office.

Needless to say, his Blazer, aka the Teal Taxi, was just about the only car out on the road as we made our way into work.  

When we got there, we were both faced with major obstacles.  His office and my department were in the infamous United Furniture building, and the pipes had frozen and burst on the first floor, while up on the second floor where my department was, the roof had caved in from the weight of the snow.  Yep, there in the office was piles of snow on various desks, filing cabinets and floors.  While Uncle Don was trying to fix the burst pipes, I was trying to scrounge up big garbage bags and cut them open to spread out over the file cabinets and other office furniture and then tried to scoop the snow out of the office. 

We both had a good lunch of chili and bologna sandwiches and good hot coffee that day, and then spent the afternoon on damage control for the pipes and holes in the roof.  On the way home, we both laughed about how the liquor stores and bars had their parking lots clear of the 18+ inches of snow. 

That is a day that will be in my memory bank forever.