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December 1, 2006

Not much sleeping going on after about 4:30 – my legs and back were hurting and the wind reached a new crescendo as wet, heavy snow filled the air and began to bond to the layer of ice weighing down the trees.  At 5:30 there was a sound like a jet engine and pieces of ice began to hit the house from a nearby tree.

“The hose is still connected to the faucet outside,” said MrsDoF.

“Good catch,” I said.

“I had a dream about it,” she said.  (This is something about the mind that fascinates me.  What is the boundary between the conscious and unconscious mind?)

Outside, visibility was poor but tree branches drooped under the weight of ice.  All around I could hear cracking wood.  Donning a pair of water-pump pliers I disconnected the hose and applied the styrofoam cap that would protect the faucet from freezing for the rest of the winter.

And now we’re thinking about breakfast at McDonald’s…

UPDATES:

  • For your entertainment, a post about car door handles and ice written 11 months ago

  • …and here’s MrsDoF’s post and photo about the weather and the crowd at McDonald’s.
  • Wow, my first day at the new job and they close the whole university.  And the schools.  The world headquarters of the State Farm company is closed.  Country Companies’ is closed. And the busses aren’t running and practically everything’s cancelled. 
  • But McDonald’s was open, full of laughing, joking college students and a couple stalwart Illinois Power linemen were getting breakfast.  They looked like they’d been working for a long time already today, and the day loomed large.
  • Six to eight inches of snow due yet to sit on top of the ice.  It will drift deep in this howling wind.
  • Lot of sirens today.  People who work in emergency services (including the aforementioned guys from Illinois Power) don’t get the day off; they work a lot harder than usual, under terrible conditions.  And emergency rooms will be doing land-office business as people keel over from trying to shovel the drifting snow, to say nothing of accidents.
  • Friday evening update: the roof collapsed in the cafeteria of a nursing home in Peoria; the area had over a foot of snow following the ice.
  • There is a cold-front coming in tonight.
  1. grump
    December 1, 2006 at 09:37 | #1

    At least you have electric power, some of us in the ares are completely at the hands of the power company at this time. Anyway thumbs up on your full time at COB. Anyone up for a snowball fight complete with ICE Forts.

  2. James Old Guy
    December 1, 2006 at 12:20 | #2

    Now I remember why I left northern Indiana, getting nasty here today also. Rain thunderstorms, cold front, they say the evening low on Monday will be 33,only going to be the 50s and 60s for the next week. Time to break out the jacket.

  3. December 1, 2006 at 17:07 | #3

    33,only going to be the 50s and 60s for the next week. Time to break out the jacket.

    :lol:   Damn southerners…

    Whenever my Grandpa would head out of Arizona to come to the mid west he always joked that he was bringing his ear muff with him.

    Man I was really thrown back when I saw all of the downed branches, and apparently it’s all over town too.  I heard out in front of Pinecrest Apartments, they have two evergreen trees at the entrance of the parking lot, and one of the trees is completely bent over to the point it blocks half the drive.  I was up pretty late last night and heard all kinds of crazy noises.  It must of been the branches falling.

    This morning my roommates truck had an inch of ice covering the gate to the bed.  One hell of a storm for sure.

  4. Mrs SEB
    December 1, 2006 at 19:52 | #4

    No snow yet, here for us, but cold and icy rain yes:-( Oh, an unemployment is also falling upon us at this point in time.

  5. December 3, 2006 at 01:18 | #5

    It was sunny and actually kinda warm in San Francisco here today.

    But believe me, I don’t think the good weather in the winter is worth the shitty weather in the summer.

  6. December 3, 2006 at 11:53 | #6

    How does the saying go: “The coldest Winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco”

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