The forecast is grim:
Tonight...Sleet in the evening. Light freezing rain. No snow accumulations. Ice accumulations around one half of an inch. Lows in the mid 20s. Temperatures nearly steady after midnight. East winds 5 to 10 mph. The chance of precipitation 90 percent.
Tuesday...Light freezing rain. Ice accumulations of one half to three quarters of an inch. Highs in the upper 20s. Temperatures steady or slowly falling. North winds 5 to 10 mph. The chance of precipitation 90 percent.
Tuesday Night...Sleet...light freezing rain likely and a chance of snow in the evening...then a slight chance of snow and sleet after midnight. Snow accumulations up to 2 inches. Ice accumulations of up to one quarter of an inch. Lows around 17. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. The chance of precipitation 70 percent in the evening...decreasing to 20 percent after midnight.
So... if my math is accurate... we can expect to have up to four inches of frozen mess on our hands, only two of that snow. May God freeze most of it on the way down, before it hits our trees and power lines. Right now, the metallic sound of heavy sleet is positively welcome.
If I were not so shivery, I would love to write more. But I must go brew more tea.
22) Sleet hitting my window instead of freezing rain tonight.
23) A dry, warm (okay, warm-away-from-the-windows) home to shield my family from that sleet.
24) A husband who'll be home from work for the next couple of days to help with the kids, which will keep me from losing my mind as we're holed up in here all together.
25) For Grammy, who turns 63 today. Her birthday dinner here was postponed, but we are still celebrating her. A tremendous gift, to enjoy my mother-- merry, helpful, loving, and hospitable to extremes-- on a daily basis, just a phone call or a short drive away. I am hugely thankful that my kids will grow up knowing her well and loving her so deeply.
26) Hot tea on cold nights and sore throats.
4 comments:
8:42 PM
Oh brrrrr...stay under those covers, Lady!! I'm assuming you're pretty prepared for this. Still, it's a drag to be sick in such nasty weather. More tea...
3:42 AM
Hope the storm wasn't too bad!
12:14 AM
Dropping by to answer your comment. Glad you survived the ice, hopefully it wasn't too bad.
Yes the move is a welcome one. As much as I like Hawaii, it doesn't feel like home, really. I'm just glad I'm not in grad school, this move.
So give a shout when you do make it to Hotlanta or the surrounds. I've heard the aquarium is awesome, too. I'll do a reconaissance mission for you.
12:44 AM
I'm months late in answering these comments, but yes, the ice was BAD. It absolutely devastated our little town. I wish I'd written about it as it happened, but we quickly became occupied with the tasks associated with keeping children warm and fed without power, and then with cleaning up multitudes of fallen twigs and branches. We were very blessed, though, in that we didn't lose any whole trees, and that our power was only out for a few days. Many here went over a week (even two or three) without power, ruining all their refrigerated food and making it impossible to stay in their homes. We had it easy by comparison.
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