Brrrrr!

It has been unusually cold for our area this week. The weather system that came through early Tuesday morning left a glaze of ice and single digit temps (at night, anyway). And, today the state has been having rolling power outages which hasn't been fun for a lot of people. Our particular area has only had one power outage which didn't last long and we think it is because our carrier serves mostly rural areas so the demand isn't what it is in the denser populated areas of the county. We're on the edge of rural meets city.

Anyway, today the clouds have thinned and the sun is ALMOST shining! See the blue sky in the picture below? Its enough to make a difference on the dark shingles that the ice is beginning to melt from our rooftop. But, evidently the downspout of our rain gutter in the back (haven't checked out front!) is still blocked because water is spilling over making for some great icicles.

From this picture you can also tell most of our "snow" blew away leaving just the ice. Tom got out this morning with a shovel to try and loosen the ice on the incline part of our driveway but it wouldn't budge. It will just have to melt. I didn't get a picture of him working on the driveway. Sorry.

I just love looking at icicles!

I'm glad we didn't have any more moisture than we did because the temp is still way below freezing and it would be much worse than it is. Because of the ice, schools and businesses have been closed yesterday and today. Don't know about tomorrow, and the weather forecast calls for snow on Friday!

~Nancy~