Enough Already

If you were to go to weather.com and type in our zip code, and then click on "Winter Weather Advisory", this is what you would see (I have edited out a bit of info):

Issued by The National Weather Service Tulsa, OK 3:17 pm CST, Wed., Jan. 6, 2010
... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM CST THURSDAY... ... WIND CHILL ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 6 PM CST FRIDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ADJUSTED THE TIMING OF THE WIND CHILL ADVISORY AND IT IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 6 PM CST FRIDAY AND A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS ALSO IN EFFECT...
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... * IN ARKANSAS... WASHINGTON... MADISON... CRAWFORD... BENTON (this is us)... CARROLL AND FRANKLIN.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA BY MID EVENING... AND PUSH THROUGH THE REST OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TONIGHT. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP RAPIDLY... AND NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO SPEEDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS ABOVE 30 MPH... FOLLOWING THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. THIS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS. IN ADDITION... LIGHT PRECIPITATION WILL DEVELOP AND SPREAD INTO THE AREA BOTH AHEAD AND BEHIND THE FRONT. SNOW IS EXPECTED ACROSS MOST OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS... WITH RAIN OR DRIZZLE TRANSITIONING TO SNOW OR FREEZING DRIZZLE OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE PRECIPITATION WILL END BY THURSDAY MORNING... ALTHOUGH BLOWING SNOW POTENTIAL WILL EXTEND INTO THURSDAY AFTERNOON IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
* DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS AS LOW AS 20 DEGREES BELOW ZERO WILL BE POSSIBLE.
* FROM 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW ACCUMULATION WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS... WITH LESSER AMOUNTS FURTHER SOUTH. A LIGHT GLAZE OF ICE FROM FREEZING DRIZZLE... LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH... IS EXPECTED ACROSS MAINLY SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS. ALTHOUGH PRECIPITATION WILL END BY THURSDAY MORNING... BLOWING SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY OVER FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS... DUE TO NORTHERLY WINDS GUSTING ABOVE 30 MPH.
IMPACTS... * FROST BITE AND HYPOTHERMIA ARE POSSIBLE IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN.
* ROADS IN THE ADVISORY AREA MAY BECOME SLICK AND HAZARDOUS... ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES AND NON-TREATED SURFACES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * PREPARE FOR THE COLD BY WEARING MULTIPLE LAYERS OF WARM CLOTHES AND LIMIT OUTDOOR ACTIVITY.

Now I know that 3 inches of snow doesn't seem like a lot (especially if you are my brother- and sister-in-law that live in Wyoming), but that's enough to cripple this area. We never get snow. Usually we get ice. And this will be the 5th time, I think, that it has snowed in the last two weeks. The last time it snowed was Saturday, and it's still here. The road is still a solid sheet of ice. I was supposed to take my foster kitten this morning to be neutered, but I about gave myself an anxiety attack thinking about having to drive on this crap with the kids in the car. (I'm sure part of the anxiety is left from my wreck a year ago). I am a good driver on ice/snow, my momma taught me well. I've never gone in the ditch or slid or anything, but it's the other yahoo's out there that you can't trust.

So we've been house bound for going on two weeks now. The kids are going stir crazy, Dalton is starting to act up (BADLY, I won't go into the details though...), and I am going to lose my mind! Now we're in for another round of snow tonight. *Sigh*. It's gonna' be a loooooong winter.