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Lessee. A couple of inches of snow on Monday. Eight more inches of snow on Tuesday night (we normally get less than six in an entire winter). Ice on Thursday. First time we've had an ice storm here in fifteen years, and this one was on a Midwestern scale. Pouring rain on Friday (yesterday), rain and wind causing the lights to flicker last night, and more rain today. No power for almost eight hours on Thursday but I am fortunate -- there are hundreds of thousands of households in this area still without power. No DSL for three days [sigh], and something appears to have fried my splitter (I pulled it and plugged directly into my computer), but again, I'm fortunate -- lots of people still don't have cable or internet or landline phone or anything. Yeah, it's a first world problem, but still.
I couldn't get out of my driveway (I live at the bottom of a very short but steep, curving hill) from Tuesday till yesterday afternoon when the plow guy finally came (it's a private road, his fee comes out of our condo dues, and I suspect he's not going to be our plow guy much longer -- people were pretty pissed when he took so long to show up). Class was cancelled on both Tuesday and Thursday nights, appointments for the exhibit gig were postponed till next week, and I will make up this past Thursday at the textile gig next week, too.
I can hear chainsaws in the distance... (lots of trees down)
Anyway, here's the photographic proof.
That's ice over snow on my little terracotta green man.
Out my back door yesterday. Today looks a bit better, although it's raining.
That poor Japanese maple is normally vertical, but it could be worse. The landscaping around here is not going to look the same once all the broken branches in my condo development are gone.
The Fairy rose out front yesterday. That's about half an inch of ice.
The burning bush across the driveway, taken from my front walk with the zoom.
What my street looked like before the plow guy got here yesterday around noon. That wouldn't be so bad if it was slush. It wasn't, though. It was frozen solid.
I think we're headed up now, though. It's 45 out, the wind seems to have calmed down a bit, and while it's raining, the snow is melting pretty rapidly now.
Onward...
I couldn't get out of my driveway (I live at the bottom of a very short but steep, curving hill) from Tuesday till yesterday afternoon when the plow guy finally came (it's a private road, his fee comes out of our condo dues, and I suspect he's not going to be our plow guy much longer -- people were pretty pissed when he took so long to show up). Class was cancelled on both Tuesday and Thursday nights, appointments for the exhibit gig were postponed till next week, and I will make up this past Thursday at the textile gig next week, too.
I can hear chainsaws in the distance... (lots of trees down)
Anyway, here's the photographic proof.
That's ice over snow on my little terracotta green man.
Out my back door yesterday. Today looks a bit better, although it's raining.
That poor Japanese maple is normally vertical, but it could be worse. The landscaping around here is not going to look the same once all the broken branches in my condo development are gone.
The Fairy rose out front yesterday. That's about half an inch of ice.
The burning bush across the driveway, taken from my front walk with the zoom.
What my street looked like before the plow guy got here yesterday around noon. That wouldn't be so bad if it was slush. It wasn't, though. It was frozen solid.
I think we're headed up now, though. It's 45 out, the wind seems to have calmed down a bit, and while it's raining, the snow is melting pretty rapidly now.
Onward...
