Snowed in at the cabin!

January 6, 2008
After my family left the cabin Brett's family all headed up to the cabin including: Mom, Dad, Aaron, Christen, Patsy, Monroe, and Chad.
Friday we played in the snow near our cabin and tried out the new inner tube we bought in Cedar City. We found a good hill by the cabin and had fun. The snow was pretty deep and we sunk down to our knees in several places. The kids only liked the snow for a short time and then they got cold and wanted to go inside. The wind started blowing really hard that night and the snow started falling.
Saturday morning we woke up to a winter wonderland all you could see was white. The cars were pretty buried in snow and shortly after breakfast the power went out. We called the power company and found out that 9 power poles had snapped and they were working on them. So we didn’t have power all day and all night. It was getting very cold, it got down to about 47 degrees in the cabin without any heat. We all bundled up and piled on the blankets. We only had one flashlight, and the fireplace worked and the gas stove top worked for dinner. However, we couldn’t find our hand can opener and had to open cans with a screwdriver and hammer. The boys went out all afternoon and shoveled snow to unbury the cars so we could possibly get out to leave the next day. Aaron came in to get his keys to move his car and couldn’t find the keys anywhere. We searched all afternoon and couldn’t find them.
Sunday it was still a winter wonderland with lots of wind and snow. The snowplow finally came down our road so we were able to get our car out. The boys went off to Panguitch to get a new key for Aaron’s car. The afternoon was filled with more snow shoveling to dig out the other cars. They moved Aaron’s and the mom and dad’s car down by the highway so we wouldn’t have to dig them out in the morning. Our car has 4 wheel drive so we will load things up and drive to the other cars in the morning and try to get out of here.
We went the long way home on Monday through St. George through Las Vegas it took about 10 hrs to get home because of the severe storm warning in Flagstaff but we got to see some new scenery so that was nice.