Snow days

It took my KISA and I just over an hour to drive the 5 miles to work today. For the first time we did not drive up the Parkway at 60mph and 10ft from the car in front...we did it at 20mph and 10ft from the car in front.

It snowed steadily through to about lunchtime and we got probably about 2 inches of snow in the end...which I had to shovel off the path and pavement when I got home. Where were the enterprising children wanting to make a couple of bucks? It was beginning to snow again when I was shovelling, but it seems to be spitting with rain now. The forecasters are still predicting freezing rain overnight which will be nasty on top of the layer of snow.

These ice storms are bad news. They coat everything (including the power lines) with a layer of ice and it seemingly only takes around 1/4 inch of ice to bring down the power lines. Mind you over here we lose power if it rains, snows, is windy or sunny...basically its safe to say that if we have weather the power goes out. It would possibly help if they buried the cables!

Our snowy backyard and adjoining woods