freewrite week 5 day 1

I woke this morning to a beautiful view outside my door.  Snow came to our house.  It wasn’t a lot but for me it never has to be.  I like the beauty of snow but not the issues that come with it.  Maybe it’s the fact that my first car was a mustang.  Because of this I grew to hate driving in snow.  My car would spin its wheels at the idea of ice on the road.  Then when we had the huge ice storm in Springfield in 07 I became a little terrified of ice.  The sound of ice and limbs cracking and falling would wake me in my sleep.  It was one of the most horrible weeks in my life.  The power went out in my house the morning after the storm began.  It took almost a week to get it back on.  It was a hard week for everyone who lived in the area.  We ended up trekking to my mom and dads who had a generator to heat their living room.  We ended up squeezing seven people in a small room every night.  Many of us had no power.  I remember having to try to find a laundry mat that had available space to clean clothes.  This horrible experience actually seemed to bring all to the same place.  We all were like refugees in the same experience.  Most had no power, no heat, and no warm water.  I remember doing anything I could to get to work just so I could take my son who was not even a year so where warm.  All the snow has melted today and I’m okay with that.  I can take a visit from snow a few times a year as long as it goes away in the same day.  I know that I can’t always get what I want when it comes to our snow fall but so far this year it’s going my way.