Peter and Kay Snowed-in In Newfoundland

The outdoor bar in the center of the cruise terminal in St Kitts

You might remember the cruising friends Peter and Kay, we met on a Celebrity cruise out of Miami three years ago. They hail from St. John's Newfoundland so that inspired me to drop them a note after hearing about the recent blizzard which hit their island.

Here's what Peter wrote back:

"Thanks for reaching out to us.   We survived unscathed but had quite a few hours of shovelling over 3 days – luckily the good NL’ers came through as usual – our “younger” next door neighbour helped shovel the first day and the second day he got his brother to use his Kubota snowblower to get rid of most of the drifted snow that we had left after the first day of shovelling (picture with shovel against the bank).  The first picture gives an idea of what we were dealing with when we started – there was no snow along the side of the house and at the back of the driveway yet the 3 vehicles, our 2 and our neighbours, the white lump to the right of the truck, were encased in snow and the drift went to the road – about another 20 feet from the shovel, 15 feet from where Kay is standing – probably 8-10 feet out into the road which still hasn’t been pushed back.   The most terrifying part of the whole ordeal was that the wind had sustained strength of 100 km plus for 15 hours – that is a lot of wind – the house shook.    Highest wind in St. John’s was about 135 km while some areas had gusts to over 170 km so we were lucky."

 "Anyway we were home and it is probably good that we were – would have been hard to be away and not know what was going on.    We were supposed to be in Vancouver all week at the conference and then go to the interior on Thursday for skiing with our son, DIL and grandsons (supposed to leave Sat AM, then Sunday AM, then Tuesday AM and now we are going to Kelowna on Thursday for Kay and Friday for me) – the airport remains closed – supposed to open again as long as the State of Emergency is lifted, tomorrow, Wed at 5 AM.     It has been a tough weekend and into the week – they are allowing grocery stores to open today as people are starting to run out of things – we are OK although we are running out of coffee cream – not that important for sure."

"Hope that your winter goes better than ours has to date."

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