The Iceman Cometh Part Deaux

As I blog I am wait­ing for the power to flicker and die. In a strange twist of fate, almost exactly a year later we are hav­ing another ice storm. At least for this one, it was not led up to by sev­eral days of below freez­ing tem­per­a­tures, and we have so far been saved by temps today at 33 or 34. This after­noon before we made a Home Depot run I had to knock off about 1/4 of ice from the awning cov­er­ing the MSV. The roads were still all wet, but if there were over­passes around I bet they would have been frozen.

Tonight it will get below freez­ing, it will just depend on how much more rain we get whether or not there is any more ice build up. Some­time tomor­row it will get above freez­ing again and stay there (just barely) until Mon­day night. Maybe last year’s storm has helped us as well. In 2004 the amount of downed trees and tree limbs was astro­nom­i­cal, that nat­ural prun­ing has per­haps pre­vented a lot of downed power lines this year.