The Beach Version of a "Snow Day"

A Nor'ester is hitting Virginia Beach and the surrounding areas right now. If the temperature were cooler we'd be buried in snow but as is the case the rain continues to fall and the winds are whipping at gusts up to 50 mph.

Here's a view from my front bay window of the rain blowing sideways as the rest spills over the gutters and down the window panes.

As a result, roads are flooding and there is coastal flooding which has resulted in schools being cancelled. We're getting as much rain as we did with Hurricane Isabel in September 2003 which caused us to lose power for five days of hell.

Sometimes the county officials have jumped the gun on these cancellations as they did on Inauguration Day earlier this year. Classes were called off the night before to avoid panic before the snow fell. Here is a picture of the snow taken from my front door.

I'm just glad Troy is in daycare so we don't have to worry about make-up days before we go on vacation in June to the Outer Banks. Is it summer yet?