Thanks for all your good wishes. My husband and I woke late the next morning, 8:15 and I was having sinus issues so woke him to go down and be ready to go to the store with the neighbor and he got downstairs in time to see the neighbor inexplicably drive off by himself. But the snow plow came. . . and got stuck, LOL. He had to call a big, yellow, meanie machine that looked like a praying mantis to get him out and that vehicle did a really good job of finishing the plowing, down to cement and half the parking pad across the street, putting the snow on the "island" in the middle.

The neighbor came home and dug out the tracks of our Ford Explorer 4-wheel drive and husband and I got up to our local grocery store which is large and well-stocked. So, I got enough stuff (2-1/2 dozen eggs and a pound and 3/4 of butter, etc. :-) to last to this weekend for sure. Today's been hard, another blizzard. Maryland, D.C., and Northern Virginia ain't equipped for this stuff.

My other neighbor's 20 year old son (he use to mow our lawn in the summer but doesn't always live at home anymore so can't be counted on) came to the door this morning while I was standing looking out and he was on his way to buy a snow blower, if he could find one, and told me not to worry about this particular mess. His mother's a nurse and he has/had to get her to work. Haven't seen him since, hope he/they are okay (he has a huge Dodge diesel truck).

I took this about an hour or two ago; I just went out to shovel and there's definitely over a foot of new snow: