March 2, 2007

• Not frozen yet

  We still have power and are still alive, in spite of last night's storm. I believe we are in for a little more snow, but not supposed to be as bad as yesterday, and for us, yesterday was not as bad as last weekend. Where we live, it started out with rain, then hail, then really wet, heavy snow, but only an inch or so of it. The problem is the wind blowing the snow back across the roads, and the drifts it's creating.

  One of our customers delivers the newspaper to rural areas. He ended up in a snow drift that covered his 4-wheel drive Jeep. He was stuck there for two hours before a farmer with a tractor came and pulled him out. The rest of the people on his route are not getting their paper tonight.

  North and west of here got it REALLY bad. There were blizzard conditions across the west and north half of the state. Interstate 80 west of Des Moines and Interstate 35 north of Des Moines are CLOSED. We did not open our Knoxville store today because all of my remaining employees live here in Oskaloosa and I wasn't going to have them driving in those conditions today. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

  Still lots of people without power. Please pray for them. We did lose power at the Oskaloosa store late yesterday afternoon and closed up early because we had no computers and no machines to print airtime cards for the pre-paid cell phone users. Closed the Knoxville store early because of the weather, too. Got home from work REALLY eaerly and had power there, but it didn't last long. Went out about half an hour after getting home, then came back on 5 or 10 minutes later, but then we had no cable. We watched a DVD until just before 7 p.m. and then checked to see if cable was back on so we could watch "Survivor." It was and we did and we got to sleep in a warm bed with heat, thank you LORD!

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