A powerful winter snowstorm pounded us in Iowa with heavy snow, ice, high winds and freezing temperatures starting Monday night through mid-day Wednesday. We got about 7 or so inches of snow. The kicker for us was the wind. 20+mph winds with 50mph gusts for 24 hours made for some good snow drifts.
Wednesday mid-morning when the wind finally died down I looked outside and to my surprise the driveway was fairly clean. The wind had blown all the snow out. So I suited up to see how the road looked. I walked out into the road and up onto the 5’-6’ deep snow drift that was about a quarter of a mile long. Knowing that we weren’t going anywhere anytime soon we settled into some snowed in activities.
To my amazement the county road grader did come that afternoon. He managed to get stuck twice trying to plow through that massive snowdrift. I shot some video of him plowing in front of the house. It took the road grader about an hour to plow a one lane path through the snow drift.
Now I feel as though I must give you some back story for this next part. In Paul Miller’s book “A Praying Life” he writes that we need to just ask God for the little things that are important to us even if they may seem dumb or we think why would God care about this. He also states that we often don’t think prayer works because we don’t see God in the story He is weaving in our lives and that we nee to keep track of the things we are praying for how/what He is answering. Anyway, I prayed that morning “God I know the road grader is going to really plow me in. You know I don’t own a snow blower. God please send someone with a plow to plow me out.” Now in five years of living in this house the road grader doesn’t care about you as a homeowner. He will plow a 7’ pile at the end of your driveway and that is your problem. Well today was different. As I was sitting in the kitchen thinking there is NO way I am going to be able to shovel all of that. The road grader started working on the end of my driveway. I stood there in total amazement. I prayed right there and thanked God for answered prayer. Now someone might say “well he was going to do that regardless of you praying or not. Maybe, but please put your cynicism aside long enough to see that I prayed that someone would plow my driveway and that prayer got answered. The driveway got plowed. As a cherry on this prayer sundae, as Elicia & I were out with our shovels cleaning up around the mailbox, my neighbor who has watched me shovel for 5 years brings his tractor down and helps to scoop out. Our God is amazing.
Here are a few pictures of the road grader as he plowed by the house.
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