Working hard on Long Island, NY

"Oliverson and I are working HARD. I haven't been this busy before. Our phone is ringing off the hook. Members are calling us all the time asking us for help in the ward. We are getting into peoples home. We're teaching all the time. In fact, we just taught a lesson to a lady this morning and now her sister is somewhat interested. We're going back on Thursday. Hopefully we can see some success.
I love it out here. Sometimes I just can't believe that I'm out here, in New York, even Long Island. I really do love it.

~Elder Maughan

Spring Snow Storm March 1st

"Hey, sorry I didn't get an email out yesterday. We got hit with a huge snow storm sunday night that closed everything down yesterday. We got stuck trying to get of our driveway. The roads were terrible. Sorry. We got to the library as soon as we could today."

~Elder Maughan

"All of New York and most of the eastern seaboard was plummeted with snow - the biggest of the season - even as Spring approaches. Universities, schools, some businesses and most preschools were closed. Area airports canceled numerous flights and experienced countless delays. The Long Island Railroad had rare delays due to blowing and drifting snow and problems with frozen switches and added an additional eight trains from Manhattan east to Long Island beginning in the early afternoon to get commuters through the storm. "

~Sister de Paula

Interesting Facts about this storm that "charged up the Eastern Seaboard and blanketed the Northeast."

For the first time in 5 years NYC Public Schools were canceled affecting 1.1 million students.
It costs the city 1 million dollars an inch to remove snow. Long Island got 14 inches.

There are 6,000 roads to plow in NYC , the equivalent of driving to LA and back.
More than 450 flights were canceled at LaGuardia Airport, 119 at JFK and they currently are experiencing 3 hour delays.
The storm stretched from Virginia to Quebec.