Ice-Storm Aftermath (Yawn)
So after two days of ICE STORM! ICE STORM COMING! DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE AWFUL ICE STORM? alerts from the National Weather Service, the ICE STORM ARRIVED!
It was rain.
All day Saturday, it rained.
ICE IS COMING! shouted the NWS. REALLY! SEVERAL INCHES OF ICE! ANY MINUTE NOW!
The rain continued.
NO, SERIOUSLY! ICE! THERE'S GONNA BE ICE!
And more rain. It rained and rained and rained. Darwin and I stayed in all day, worried that the rain would indeed turn to ice any second and catch us flat if we drove anywhere. Nope. No ice.
Finally, around eleven, the rain slowly . . . slowly . . . turned . . . into . . . sleet. We popped outside to salt the driveway again with more water softener salt. The sleet was more snow than actual sleet. Little pellets of snow, really. We went to bed.
This morning, our driveway is clear, but the street is coated in white frosting. It's not particularly slick. The trees have no ice on them at all.
After all that build-up, we were worried we'd be trapped in the house for days.
Better, I suppose, to be prepared for a dangerous event that never happens than the reverse. However, I'm afraid that at the next one, people will look back at the NWS's reaction to this one and say, "Well, they always exaggerate," and get caught by a truly serious storm.
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It was rain.
All day Saturday, it rained.
ICE IS COMING! shouted the NWS. REALLY! SEVERAL INCHES OF ICE! ANY MINUTE NOW!
The rain continued.
NO, SERIOUSLY! ICE! THERE'S GONNA BE ICE!
And more rain. It rained and rained and rained. Darwin and I stayed in all day, worried that the rain would indeed turn to ice any second and catch us flat if we drove anywhere. Nope. No ice.
Finally, around eleven, the rain slowly . . . slowly . . . turned . . . into . . . sleet. We popped outside to salt the driveway again with more water softener salt. The sleet was more snow than actual sleet. Little pellets of snow, really. We went to bed.
This morning, our driveway is clear, but the street is coated in white frosting. It's not particularly slick. The trees have no ice on them at all.
After all that build-up, we were worried we'd be trapped in the house for days.
Better, I suppose, to be prepared for a dangerous event that never happens than the reverse. However, I'm afraid that at the next one, people will look back at the NWS's reaction to this one and say, "Well, they always exaggerate," and get caught by a truly serious storm.
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