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So what was the longest you have ever been locked up in the house due to bad weather/forces of Mother Nature?

There was the winter of '78 when the mound of ice blocked the front door, and a drift of snow completely covered the back door. Dad got out after about 24 hours (he really needed cigerettes) but my mother, brother and I were snow bound for about a week. the house was so packed in snow, insulating it from the wind, my brother and I wore shorts in the house one day!

I only bring up this question because with the weather upsets the past week, 10 days, Punky and I have been house bound two days here, a day there - and its taking its toll on Mama!

Probably a week to ten days but that was just a couple of adults, no two-year-old to keep entertained! You're much tougher!!!

I'm in southern California.......ummmmm maybe 1 day tops. I don't mind a little rain once in awhile. I don't take the kids out in it but I don't mind going to the store if needed when it's raining.

Kathryn

When you mentioned the rain in Southern California, it reminded me of our trip there several years ago. Hubby and I rented a car,drove from LA to Vegas. On the way home, the car broke down in the mountains about a half an hour away from a city on rt 15 (think it was 15 that went to Sin City). Hubby called the car rental place,and the guy said it would take him an hour to get to us because it was raining. Mind you, we come from New England,and rain is nothing. The truck driver was sooo upset because of the rain, and all we could say was "it is not ICE and SNOW, just rain!!". Could never understand that. Good memory.
As to the question of cabin fever, for us it was the blizzard of '78, and we were stranded for 3 days until an Army payloader plowed our street out. Didn't mind it, young and just married, who cared?

>>Didn't mind it, young and just married, who cared?>>>>

Definitely brings back fun memories. When you're young, most anything just rolls off. Thanks for the reminder to look back and chuckle at some of the past.............K

LOL! That's because it doesn't rain often enough in southern Cali. So when it does most people don't know how to drive in the rain and there are too many accidents. Chances are before the tow truck guy even got to you, that he had to get around at least 1 rain caused accident that backed up traffic for miles. I don't mind a local drive, but I hate having to go anywhere on the freeways in the rain. It's nuts. Main problem is that most people think that you can drive as fast as you do on dry roads when it rains. And that of course is wrong, wrong, wrong. LOL!

Kathryn

I recall only once in my life being home-bound for two solid days, and a really bad third day (but you could get out if you absolutely had to on the third day). We weren't blocked in the house, but nobody could get out of parking lots or driveways to go anywhere. Everything was burried. We had two big snow dumps back-to-back, and there were several feet high drifts. They didn't have anywhere to put all the snow after the second show storm hit us... That was in the early 90s here in Northern Maryland...

We had horrible winters in the mid-west (Iowa) when I was a kid, but I don't recall ever being house-bound other than a day or two in a row when it was extreme (I mean extreme) and they closed school. They close shool for a heavy frost around here (Northern Maryland), but in Iowa, it had to be so many degrees below zero, so many inches/feet of snow, etc...
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Tammy and Pookey
(Stanley 8/91 - 8/07)

4 days about 10 years ago. We didn't even get newspapers or mail delivered because of the roads. The only reason that I was stuck is that the city didn't bother with doing our little dead end street.
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Tessa Onyx, Foudini, Charlee, Spottie, ShyRaven, Buddy, Tuxie, Widdle Attila Sipowitz, Lizzie, Minnie, ET, Mylo,(We be house cats at last), and Salem, Wicca and Marmalade (We iz also house cats, we guess)and the 5 porch kits also Riley da goggie and Buddha da baby hamster too
Tabitha and Samantha..always in our hearts//Fly free Penny 12/12/07
A house without cats is like a garden without flowers

I grew up in Northern Michigan and I don't remember ever being snowbound. We had a lot of snow, but I can't recall that it affected me too much. I hear everyone mentioning the blizzard of '78, but I don't remember anything about it even though I was in Michigan then. Maybe living in a snow area I was so used to the snow that it didn't faze me.

Ellen

about three weeks, akkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
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PHTessie