The thing that caught our eye was the snow drifts! Check out this snow drift behind my roommates car!
It all looked pretty cool at first, but it slowly started looking more like a nightmare once we realized we had to go to church. With 2-3 foot snow drifts and no HOA snowplows in sight we knew we were in trouble. Lori called a counselor in our Bishopric to see if church would be cancelled and he said "I don't understand. Why would it be cancelled? She said "We have a foot of snow out here and we can't get out of our driveway!". He said "Well, it's not even precipitating in Holladay!" Is that supposed to make us feel better? Needless to say, church wasn't cancelled so we decided to get down to business! We all bundled up in our winter clothes and took to the snow. We did run into a slight problem though: we only had one shovel. So while one roommate used the shovel, the other roommate and I grabbed the next best thing: dust pans!
The dust pans may not have been very good for shoveling, but they did a great job scraping snow off the cars (which was my job). 
After about an hour, we realized we weren't getting very far so we decided to call in reinforcements: the hometeachers. This is what hometeachers are for, right? We called one who was more than willing to come, and he even brought his brother. 
So between five people, three shovels and two dust pans, we were done in about another hour. That's two hours total. It wouldn't have taken that long, but the guys went the extra mile and shoveled our neighbors drive as well, while we three girls shoveled the road (I mean, what's the point of clearing the driveway just to get stuck in the street?)!
The overall snow total at my house was 11-12". If any of us can walk tomorrow it will be a miracle. But just the same, it was a grand adventure. I love the snow!
Why does this never happen on a work day?
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