Ice Storm - Round 2

For several days, we have been bracing for another huge ice storm that the weathermen have been predicting. It started raining yesterday at about 5:00PM, and it loked like the big storm was on. Strangely enough, the temperature bottomed out at about 32 degrees, and didn't get any colder. We woke up this morning to a lot of ice on the trees, but very little on the roads. We've gotten about 1.5 inches of rain so far, (can't tell for sure, as the rain gauge froze over), so all in all, this is a real blessing. The wheat crop around here was pretty desparate for some moisture.

Virtually all the schools in the area are closed today, which of course thrilled Brian. I'm sure he'll make the most of the day by sleeping and playing video games all day long....

All in all, it's pretty hard to complain about the storm. It could have been much worse. The forecasters were comparing the potential devastation to 2005, so I'm not complaining one bit that it didn't turn out that bad.

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