{"id":1503,"date":"2011-02-09T16:43:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T23:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2011-02-09T16:52:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T23:52:11","slug":"icepocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blag.samandshannon.com\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"Icepocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being back in Indiana is, weatherly speaking, a long way from Central America and the Panama Canal.  We got iced in for a few days last week and had a lot of good laughs with family and friends sitting around the fire, watching movies, and playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rovio.com\/index.php?page=angry-birds\">Angry Birds<\/a> (Shannon is a pig-smashing fiend).  Most of the city was shut down with a couple inches of ice on everything, so it was a nice little staycation for everyone except Sam &#8212; sometimes working from home isn&#8217;t as awesome as he usually makes it out to be!<\/p>\n<p>The city may have been shut down, but Twitter never sleeps.  Our friend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/TotallyJeffCPA\">@TotallyJeffCPA<\/a> started a round mischief with this little <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TotallyJeffCPA\/status\/32579866188582914\">gem<\/a> from a few neighborhoods away: &#8220;This stuff is so awesome to run and slide in. No joke, go try it!  Get a good running start and just let nature and gravity take control.&#8221;  Sam and his brother Peter took Jeff&#8217;s advice immediately.  Thanks to the slight hill, they didn&#8217;t even need a running start:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/19499343\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/19499343\">Icepocalypse 1<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1978497\">Sam and Shannon Bloomquist<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sam captured his run on a very shaky first-person HandCam:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/19499231\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/19499231\">Icepocalypse 2<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1978497\">Sam and Shannon Bloomquist<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brothers will be brothers, so Pete upped the ante by heading to the bigger hill.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/19499235\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/19499235\">Icepocalypse 3<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1978497\">Sam and Shannon Bloomquist<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Foreseeing the bruised tailbones that inevitably result after prolonged brotherly competition on the icy slopes, the girls decided it was time to break out the sleds.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/19499341\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/19499341\">Icepocalypse 4<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1978497\">Sam and Shannon Bloomquist<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the fun, Mother Nature.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. 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