It was sunny today and got up to 24F. The roads seem to be in better shape for now. I saw a UPS truck creep by earlier. But it’s back down to 11 tonight and 10 tomorrow night so the slush just refreezes. All the icicles melted from my house except for the large one holding my AT&T fiber line hostage.
And we got the boil water alert everyone knew was coming. Three years in a row now. I’m better prepared this time. I’ve got 60 bottles and I filled up two pitchers last night. The true extent of broken pipes won’t be known until next week, though, so I’ll have to boil at some point.
It’s been six days (feels like weeks) with three more to go before we get above freezing. I’m so tired of wearing three layers and being stuck in the house (except to go out and start the car). I’m hoping the power grid can get us the rest of the way through. Southern cities were just not built for this kind of extended freeze. It makes me worry for the future since it seems this is the new normal.
Today is the sort of day that typifies the worst of an El Nino January – it’s foggy, drizzling, and unseasonably warm. It doesn’t feel like a day in January, but it doesn’t feel like any other season, either – it just feels … wet. It feels like a day to stay inside, for sure, and it’s going to continue much like this for a few more days. I just hope the vodka and Caesar mix supply holds out! The weather office website says that a “special weather statement” just ended, so I don’t know what it was, but it was probably about fog.
Yeah, same here (NE Ohio-note that IIRC guests cannot see where your location is in your profile, so I am often guessing or scrolling back to see where someone is). The 8-10" of snow from Sunday is almost completely gone-LOL, I had cleared it all from the top and sides of my car on Monday, and the only bit left on the lawn now is from the two huge piles I made there.
Was cleaning up the back yard a bit and came across a likely casualty of the cold snap: dead, frozen squirrel. May have dropped out of tree from the cold and died.
At least, as far as I know he wasn’t watching a Chiefs game.