The rays of the sun pretty much forced Rigby out of bed that morning. Rigby walked over to the window and took a look outside. What he saw astounded him.

"Mordecai," shouted Rigby, "you've gotta see this!" As Mordecai stumbled out of bed, Rigby continued to stare out the window at the marvelous sight. Mordecai slogged his way to the window, thinking that Rigby was going to tell another stale joke about a squirrel "hiding his nuts."

"Is it another squirrel Rig…," Mordecai said before he was interrupted by the sight of a three foot blanket of snow that fell upon the park overnight.

"Looks like Muscle Man got dandruff again," Rigby said before he and Mordecai chuckled a bit.

"Dude," said Mordecai with a small grin on his beak, "you know what this means…"

"SNOOOOOOOOOOW DAAAAY!" The two were looking forward to a day of non-stop junk food, video games and partying.

"Let's go to the coffee shop," said Mordecai getting his jacket on, "I think I'm going to make snow angels with Margret today." Rigby grumbled at how cheesy that last remark sounded, but quickly brushed it off and got his jacket on. They both dressed up for the cold weather and ran downstairs to the front door. Once they opened it they were greeted with a three foot-high wall of snow.

"Aw…what," Mordecai groaned, "UGH, I forgot the roads aren't plowed yet." It looks like he wasn't going anywhere that day. Suddenly, Benson burst through the wall with a shovel and startled the two. He was wearing snowshoes and looked somewhat exhausted from the hard digging he did.

"Why do you have a shovel," said Mordecai, "you're wearing snowshoes."

"These things are useless," said Benson sternly, "I only got so far before falling through. Good thing I brought this with me. Anyway, I dug so a little path to the garage so you could snow blow the rest of the path to the entrance."

Mordecai and Rigby dropped their shoulders and moaned. Looks like there was still work to do today.

"Hey, stop you're whining," said Benson, "I had to dig through half of your work with a shovel just to get to the house. You two just have to use the snow blowers. Now get the rest of the snow off the path OR YOU'RE FIRED!" Benson stormed his way inside, determined to take a hot bath to thaw his frozen gumballs. He did dig a small path to the house, but there was still a heavy amount of snow still clinging to it. And Mordecai and Rigby would have to blow it.

"Aw man," complained Rigby, "since when does snow day equal work day?"

"Dude, chill out," said Mordecai, "Benson already had to dig half of it. It won't take that long, and by the time we finish, the roads will be plowed."

Mordecai and Rigby headed to the garage, took the reins of the snow blowers, and plugged in their earphones. Thus began a two hour slog to dig through the wall of snow. If someone made a montage of this quest to blow snow, it would probably involve the song "Warrior" by Scandal.

Seconds turned to minutes and minutes turned to hours. By noon, they finally reached the street.
"I think we made it dude," Rigby said as they reached the gates of the park. To both of their horrors, the street was not plowed. It had just as much snow as the grass in the park. Mordecai even saw a long trail of Benson's footprints on top of the snow. Looks like he didn't dig as much as he thought.

Back in the house, Benson was sitting on the couch watching Gossip Guy. That is until Mordecai and Rigby suddenly came in the door. "Did you finish yet?"

"Yeah, but where's the plow," asked Mordecai, "Doesn't it usually clear the streets by noon?"

"New plowing system," said Benson, "the plow company doesn't want to leave any leftover snow on the side of the road."

"UGH," Mordecai complained.

"Look on the bright side," said Benson, "The park's closed, so I don't have anything else for you to do." Benson got up from the couch and went upstairs. "I'm going to take a nap, don't do anything too messy."

"OOOOOHHHH," Mordecai and Rigby were cheerful that they could spend the day doing whatever they wanted. The guest bedroom was upstairs, so they didn't have to worry about waking Benson up, and they had the whole house to themselves….

And then the power went out…

TO BE CONTINUED