You know it's bad outside when...
Jan. 7th, 2009 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gerisullivan...the short version of this afternoon's Accuweather forecast includes these words:
"...ice accumulations may cause power outages."
Oh, joy.
More of that noisy freezing rain stuff has been falling from the sky. No cracking tree branches yet, unless they're SPDs. My sixty-four thousand dollar question du jour is whether or not to go out and remove the lake of slush covering the concrete apron and bottom part of my driveway.
If I do, the rest of the freezing rain that falls today may well turn into thick glare ice that's all but impossible to remove until the temperature warms up again and the ice melts.
If I don't and the slush lake freezes hard while the freezing rain continues falling and the temperature drops, the driveway lake ice will be thick enough to supporting a fishing shack until spring.
Okay, maybe not until spring....
There's likely to be a period of some unknown number of hours after the freezing rain is through falling and before the slush freezes rock hard. Whether or not I'll notice when that is and remove the slush in time is problematic at best.
At least I'm not trying to drive in this. And the power is still on and steady. (Knocking wood....)
Yes, I live here. By choice and All That Jazz....
"...ice accumulations may cause power outages."
Oh, joy.
More of that noisy freezing rain stuff has been falling from the sky. No cracking tree branches yet, unless they're SPDs. My sixty-four thousand dollar question du jour is whether or not to go out and remove the lake of slush covering the concrete apron and bottom part of my driveway.
If I do, the rest of the freezing rain that falls today may well turn into thick glare ice that's all but impossible to remove until the temperature warms up again and the ice melts.
If I don't and the slush lake freezes hard while the freezing rain continues falling and the temperature drops, the driveway lake ice will be thick enough to supporting a fishing shack until spring.
Okay, maybe not until spring....
There's likely to be a period of some unknown number of hours after the freezing rain is through falling and before the slush freezes rock hard. Whether or not I'll notice when that is and remove the slush in time is problematic at best.
At least I'm not trying to drive in this. And the power is still on and steady. (Knocking wood....)
Yes, I live here. By choice and All That Jazz....
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