{"id":1746,"date":"2009-12-24T17:22:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T22:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2009-12-24T21:18:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T02:18:23","slug":"day-2-midwestern-christmas-snowstorm-afternoon-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 &#8211; Midwestern Christmas Snowstorm &#8211; Afternoon update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow10-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"Check out the license plate!\" title=\"Check out the license plate!\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow10-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow10.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHome sweet home Alabama (vacationing in northwestern Wisconsin) &#8211; check out the license plate and car dealership <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KzHjLgq-v2E&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nThis video shows the snowfall at about 2:30PM along with a snowplow clearing the road. Exciting stuff for an Alabama boy! Sorry for the crazy parakeet tweeting &#8211; I was standing right next to his cage and apparently invading &#8220;his space&#8221; when I was recording the video.<\/p>\n<p>It has been snowing all day today with at least six inches already on the ground, and the weather forecast calls for the heaviest snow tonight with rates of 1-2 inches per hour! More pictures from throughout the day:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow11-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"The Cardwell house mid-morning\" title=\"The Cardwell house mid-morning\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow11-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow11.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>The Cardwell house mid-morning\n<\/td>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow15-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Analise prepares to walk\/crawl\/hike through the foot of snow in the front yard\" title=\"Analise prepares to walk\/crawl\/hike through the foot of snow in the front yard\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow15-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow15.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>Analise prepares to walk\/crawl\/hike through the foot of snow in the front yard\n<\/td>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow14-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Josiah walks through the snow near the sledding hill\" title=\"Josiah walks through the snow near the sledding hill\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow14-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow14.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>Josiah walks through the snow near the sledding hill\n<\/td>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow13-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The sledding hill\" title=\"The sledding hill\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow13-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow13.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nThe sledding hill\n<\/td>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow12-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Josiah ready to go down the hill - he didn&#039;t go very far\" title=\"Josiah ready to go down the hill - he didn&#039;t go very far\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/snow12.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nJosiah ready to go down the hill &#8211; he didn&#039;t go very far\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mXxXlpZVqVU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object>\n<\/td>\n<td>A video collage of Analise and Josiah hiking\/walking through the snow.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4Pzz14h011s&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nAlso, I still had a chance to get an hour long bike ride in today &#8212; and I&#8217;ll hopefully ride again tonight weather permitting \ud83d\ude09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home sweet home Alabama (vacationing in northwestern Wisconsin) &#8211; check out the license plate and car dealership This video shows the snowfall at about 2:30PM along with a snowplow clearing the road. Exciting stuff for an Alabama boy! Sorry for the crazy parakeet tweeting &#8211; I was standing right next to his cage and apparently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,11],"tags":[68,19,85,116,115],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-travel","tag-christmas","tag-photos","tag-snow","tag-videos","tag-wisconsin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-sa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}