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Ice Storm Round I
Saturday, Jan. 13, 2 p.m.--Well, the first phase of the Great 2007 Ice Storm, freezing rain last night, is over. In our part of the metro area, we have 1/4 inch or less on trees or power lines, and we still have power. The outage had reached 117,000 "customers"--households or businesses--by noon today. We are thankful. This is Lois' redbud tree in our front yard.
All of the bird feeders were mobbed this morning and birds were looking for open water, too. These gold finches in winter drab were sipping on thistle seeds by the study window. We saw lots of sparrows, finches, starlings, doves, and cardinals...also a red-bellied woodpecker, and lots of squirrels. The freezing drizzle has returned this afternoon, and feeders are quiet.
The forecast is for another wave of freezing rain overnight tonight, rain tomorrow, and a final blast of freezing rain on Sunday night, before the whole thing leaves in a snow flurry on Monday. These branches of the maple tree out back, over our power, phone and cable lines, are only lightly coated with ice right now. We have a plan for dealing with the refrigerator and freezer contents if power goes off, and we have a small sterno stove for heating soup and water. We have cleaned and filled and tested our trusty Kero-Sun stove that we used back in the 1970s during extra cold winters at our previous house, and we will try that as a heat source if we lose power. If there is an extended outage, friends have offered us a warm bed--assuming that THEIR power stays on, of course. At least they have gas logs at their place! We pray for the safety of all the travelers, and anyone in the cold and dark right now, or soon to be.
Saturday, Jan. 13, 2 p.m.--Well, the first phase of the Great 2007 Ice Storm, freezing rain last night, is over. In our part of the metro area, we have 1/4 inch or less on trees or power lines, and we still have power. The outage had reached 117,000 "customers"--households or businesses--by noon today. We are thankful. This is Lois' redbud tree in our front yard.
All of the bird feeders were mobbed this morning and birds were looking for open water, too. These gold finches in winter drab were sipping on thistle seeds by the study window. We saw lots of sparrows, finches, starlings, doves, and cardinals...also a red-bellied woodpecker, and lots of squirrels. The freezing drizzle has returned this afternoon, and feeders are quiet.
The forecast is for another wave of freezing rain overnight tonight, rain tomorrow, and a final blast of freezing rain on Sunday night, before the whole thing leaves in a snow flurry on Monday. These branches of the maple tree out back, over our power, phone and cable lines, are only lightly coated with ice right now. We have a plan for dealing with the refrigerator and freezer contents if power goes off, and we have a small sterno stove for heating soup and water. We have cleaned and filled and tested our trusty Kero-Sun stove that we used back in the 1970s during extra cold winters at our previous house, and we will try that as a heat source if we lose power. If there is an extended outage, friends have offered us a warm bed--assuming that THEIR power stays on, of course. At least they have gas logs at their place! We pray for the safety of all the travelers, and anyone in the cold and dark right now, or soon to be.
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