It has been a rough couple days for state Sen. R.J. Kost down in Cheyenne.

It started snowing Saturday, “and by Saturday evening it was getting pretty bad,” the Powell lawmaker reported. “By Sunday morning we were basically snowed in, but not as bad as Sunday evening.”

The logjam was worse Sunday because of the wind factor, Kost said.

“We had over 30, 31 inches of snow, but then the wind was blowing like a son-of-a-gun,” he said, worsening the situation with drifts.

Kost and his wife were at his home away from home, the Marriott Suites in Cheyenne, where he is taking part in the legislative session.

By Monday, Kost and others at the hotel were working to dig out their vehicles. A crew that was in town working on a Microsoft data center and staying at the hotel had a backhoe and used it to help clear the parking lot and vehicles. Guests could get out of the lot, but Kost said the streets were so bad that they couldn’t go anywhere.

Kost said his daughter lives in town and wasn’t able to get out by Monday. He went over to her house and helped dig out the car, but in her neighborhood, she couldn’t go anywhere. Only about every fourth street had a path pushed through by a snowplow or end loader, Kost said.

“Then, yesterday [Tuesday] we got out to go get some groceries,” he said. The roads were not cleared around Cheyenne and the ones that were passable were very rough.

By Wednesday, things were getting close to normal.

“It is wet and getting wetter,” Kost said Wednesday between meetings. “Once it all starts melting we’ll definitely have some water.”

He was able to get to the Capitol and his wife used the couple’s SUV to take their daughter to work.

“They are working on the streets, but it is pretty rare to get that much snow so fast,” Kost added.

Many legislators had gone home for the weekend and were having difficulty reaching the capitol building to resume the session. Those legislators gathered in regional towns and were guided to Cheyenne by Wyoming Department of Transportation personnel.

“So most of them made it back and we were able to get them here safely, with the help of the department personnel,” Kost added.

After the Legislature’s proceedings were canceled on Monday and Tuesday, the legislative session resumed on Wednesday, and addressed items on that day’s calendar. The rest of the week will progress as planned, hearing second and third readings on some bills that had first readings last week. Then the Legislature will take up general filed bills, Kost said, including his bill to update hemp regulations statewide.

The session will be extended by two days, like make-up snow days for schools. Kost was unsure whether it would be two days added to the session or if there would be two Saturday meetings to get to the work scheduled for the days of inclement weather.

“Our goal is to do our best to get through the bills and just work forward,” Kost said.