Still raining and 22 degrees. |
I woke
up this morning at 4:44 knowing that something was going on outside. I got up to check it out. It was raining and only 20° out there. It was freezing the moment it landed on the
ground. At 7:00 the power went out for
over an hour.
Once
daylight started I bundled up and headed out to inspect my ice glazed winter
wonderland. Our vehicles were completely
encased with a thick layer of ice and the ground was slippery. I dragged out the ice melt and sprinkled
away.
Ice glazed windshield |
After prying up some of it |
Amazingly
school was not canceled and yet the roads are far more treacherous than they
were last week when they called a snow day.
I did manage to get the door open on the truck and she started right
up. I let her idle with the defroster on
full blast. After 10 minutes the ice
loosened and once I chiseled a chunk off with the ice scraper I was able to
start lifting the ice off in big sheets. It was so incredibly thick. Weirdest thing I’ve ever encountered in all my
year living here.
I got
my girls to school and never did go over 20 mph. A lot of accidents reported in the valley on
the freeway which is currently closed. I
don’t plan to go anywhere I don’t have to and to be honest I was thinking
school today could have been optional.
Did I
mention I fed my girls chocolate chip cookies for breakfast and packed them
granola and milk in their lunches? I was
right in the middle of trying to heat up leftovers for their lunches when the
power went out. And the Mother Of The Year award goes to.....
Gosh, you get best person of the year award for tackling the ice and thinking of something in their lunches. Where we use to live one evening there was a terrible ice storm and it brought down lots of big trees, damaging homes, yards and knocking out electricity. We had severe damage and it was so scary to hear big oaks crashing.
ReplyDeleteWe haven't had anything like this yet this year.. it's brutal though! I think you did pretty good for even packing them a lunch personally! lol!! You can only do what you can do!
ReplyDeleteWhen I got home from work I chiseled a path from the front door to our truck. What a mess outside. So ready for spring!
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