January 6 & 7, 2014 --
Our mission president has closed the mission for these two days, due to extremely cold weather, high winds and icy roads. Temperatures have windchilled at minus 30 and minus 40, with daytime highs being 2 or 5. President Vellinga announced this as of 7 a.m. Monday, the 6th. The office sisters called some of the missionaries, and the zone leaders called others, to relay the president's message that no one go outside; stay in a warm apartment.
So we stayed home from work in Cleveland for both days. We extended our gospel study time, read, worked on our yarn projects (Larry's plastic canvas, Pat's crocheted baby booties for hospitals), and made soup, muffins and tapioca. Later in the day we watched a movie on our computer for our Family Home Evening. We also worked on our blog and journals.
All schools, government offices and courts (meaning our work at the courthouse), and many businesses were announced as closed on the radio. It has to be extreme for northeast Ohio to close schools and government buildings, since this state is used to bad winter weather. It reminds me of growing up in Minnesota: in all of my 13 school years, they only closed school because of snow one or two times. However, I remember a standing rule that if the temperature reached minus 50 (windchill or regular temp), all would be closed including churches on Sunday. It only happened one time that I can recall.
I'm glad we brought our super-warm quilt that Davy's family made us for last Christmas (2012). It keeps us snuggy at night. Thank you, family!
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