The Blizzard Storm - Sophany's Story

The day before the blizzard hit, my mom and I went to the grocery store to buy some things that we needed to prepare for the storm. During that day, all the stores were very busy and some of the food and beverages almost ran out. Luckily, we stared ahead of time, so everything was convenient for us. My dad filled up the gas tank and made sure the snow blower was working well.

The next day, the blizzard came with strong winds and heavy snow. All the places were shut down, including my workplace, for two days in a row. I sat close to the window, looked outside and saw white, snowy conditions covering the cars, roads, trees and houses. After the snow stopped, my dad and my husband used the snow blower to clean the snow on the driveway. The machine helped remove the thick snow quickly. My mom and I cleaned the cars and shoveled the sidewalk. It is the first time that I have seen a blizzard with thick snow and ice in Rhode Island during my almost 9 years here.

The blizzard taught us a lesson to prepare before the storm hit. It was an amazing experience for my family to spend outdoors, working, laughing, talking and playing together. After we finished removing the snow, my family spent time together and we ate warm food like noodle soup and watched a movie on Netflix.

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Sophany Din - Cambodia

The Blizzard of 26 - Daneuris' Story

My experience with the storm was very chill. I don't have a problem staying at home, so I took all that time to work on a personal project and watch movies with my family, and trying to calm my dad who doesn't like to stay too much at home, unlike me haha. But it was surrealistic watching all that snow falling and not stopping. I live on the second floor and looking at the street from the windows was scary.

The day after the storm me and my dad tried to shovel but it was too much, so we cleaned the car as much as we could and waited for the house owner who had a snowblower. So, me, my father, our neighbors and the house owner cleaned all the parking spaces and the entrance to the parking lot. But the day after that, the city cleaned the street and they pushed all the snow across the entrance of the parking lot again haha. They did that in the night so we got trapped for another day and missed work.

Overall, everything was nice because we didn’t have too many problems but in the future I'm going to exaggerate the story to impress my kids hahah.

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Daneuris Guzman - Dominican Republic