So much snow and wind

The snow just kept coming down, blowing around and just socking our town with lots of the white stuff.  Just outside the school I'm here with the school truck in the background and you can see that my hood is covered in the flying snow, houses are still hard to see and I've got my face pretty much covered up to protect it from the chill.  The wind is brutal when it is so cold and it gets hard to see when snow is blowing into your eyes.  Instant watering can happen when the wind flies right into your eyes too.  Then you have a problem, tears plus cold wind can equal ice right near the eyes.  Long eyelashes sticking together isn't always that fun.

Anyhow, with all the winter weather, it was fun to walk around the school grounds and see what it was like to walk in the wind and snow but I was glad that I did just walk around the school and wasn't somewhere that I had to walk to find shelter.  While the blizzard was in our area, planes didn't fly.  That means that the mail doesn't come.  When mail doesn't come that also means that food doesn't come either.  I was still waiting for my milk to show up from Anchorage at this point.  (It finally came but it was delayed because of this storm!)

Once the storm had passed, roads were plowed and the village started to breathe again.  Mountains of snow started to appear near our little school parking area and the younger kids were excited about them.  A snow slide formed on one side and we climbed up and down the other to take pictures time after time.  

The older kids have the exciting job of shoveling the boardwalks here on school grounds so that everyone can travel safely from building to building.  They had quite the workout!  They had a good amount to get rid of and with each toss, I swear more just fell down onto the boards.  They got it pretty clear though, enough so we could get around.   You see a 4-wheeler here pretty buried in snow and then a picture of myself kneeling on the shoveled boardwalk.  Most of that snow is gone now as we have warmed up over the last week.  Now we have piles of snow where the drifts were and some bare areas.