January 12, 2007
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Will it? Won't it?
Living here in north central Texas is always interesting this time of year as polar air drops down on us from the north, while warm, moist air lingers from earlier in the day.
We don't get a lot of snow around here....we have a nasty tendency to get ice storms, which is what's forecast for tonight, tomorrow, and possibly right into Sunday.
Perhaps as much as a 1/2" of ice. Lemme tell you, a 1/2" layer of ice is a miserable nuisance....electric lines snap under its weight, it takes forever to melt (especially as it's supposed to remain chilly till Thursday or so), and so on. I'll allow it does look pretty. If we do indeed get an ice storm I'll take a photo of bare tree branches encased in ice. But that's about all it's good for. Used to drive me nuts when the children were little, for it'd cause school to be canceled, but one can scarcely tell the children to go outside and play in the ice, for crying out loud.
Not to mention it'll play wiley-beguiled with Jessica's restaurant's profitability for the month, if the weekend's wiped out.
Did I mention today's the opening day of the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo? That'd be a real pity, to have an ice storm wreck the opening weekend. Lots of people come to show and sell their animals, and it's their vacation for the year, as I understand it. Wouldn't it be a shame to come all this way only to wind up stuck, unable to go anywhere because of the ice coating the streets?
Still, it hasn't happened yet. I can't count how many times we were to have been slammed with winter storms only to have 'em either fizzle out entirely before getting here, or splitting apart and going north and south of us.
Since Dmitry's anxiously anticipating having all three of the Waybourn teens over to stay on Sunday night (it's a holiday on Monday), it'd be a pity to have to postpone, seeing how difficult it is to find a free weekend for them.
Maybe it'll fizzle? Maybe?
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I'll take our 0 degree with windchills of -10ish over an ice storm any day. If the Waybourn teens can get to your house in the icky weather couldn't Dmitry still have the sleepover?
I don't think Dan'd be permitted to drive the Kia over from Arlington on ice. Ice really isn't driveable, y'know? We don't tend to have chains and whatnot on our tires.
We just slip and slide and crash a lot when it gets icy.
Maybe it won't happen. Or maybe it'll happen tonight but be gone by later on Sunday.
Maybe.
OTOH, oy vey and aye carumba...! It's too COLD where you are, Cheri! =8^o
My niece recently took a job in Austin. She was informed that in the rare event that Austin gets ice, she is NOT to attempt to get to work. Even if she thinks she can manage it safely, the roads will be filled with people who think they can, but can't.
A half inch is a LOT. I recently realized the downside of this warm winter we're having up here -- we almost never get icing, and usually only toward spring, but it's much more likely this year with the temperature fluctuating so much and hovering around the freezing mark so much more of the time. It hasn't happened yet, though.
From the news, it sounds like Kansas got hit. Is that right? Or did I mis-hear?
There's nothing good about an ice storm, except it does make the trees look pretty before it tears the limbs off 'em. More often than not the power goes off, sometimes for days. Driving? Forget it! Snow can be moved aside and life can go on, but ice - uh uh.
I believe you're right, Heidi, and Kansas got a whuppin'.
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