~ IcE, iCe, IcE
Greetings, from the frozen American Midwest.
This entry will be short. I must post it before the drizzle, currently falling, encases my car in another sheet of hard, slick ice.
I’ve had trouble getting online. The three-day ice storm knocked out half the electricity in this town.
Rain and sleet falls from the sky, covers up everything and then freezes over, into ice. The ice forms on roads, sidewalks, cars, mailboxes, power lines and tree branches. The accumulation on power lines and on trees is especially damaging. The weight of the ice causes tree branches to break off, then they fall onto the frozen power lines, severing them.
As of earlier this afternoon, 130 power lines were reported broken in my city of 20,000 people. Folks are warned to stay inside their homes, due to the danger of slipping on the ice and falling ONTO a downed power line, which can electrocute a person to death. Fallen trees block many of the roads, which are already too iced-over to drive on.
Winter is here. And he’s not in a good mood.
I haven’t lost electrical power yet, but my cable TV and cable internet are down for the forseeable future. I’ve passed my time by sipping hot apple cider, reading books and listening to music. I also wash my clothes. Something about doing the laundry on days like these is so soothing. Why?
Oh, well. Gotta get back home and, oh … maybe finish reading another book.
~ B.
December 11, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Beautiful picture. The window in the background looks familiar if you took it where I think you took it.
Sorry about the bad weather… That’s due to global warming, you know. Tell your government to sign Kyoto Protocol
If doing the laundry is so soothing to you, do you mind doing mine? =p
December 14, 2007 at 1:08 am
I can’t do your laundry. Women are too picky about how their clothes are washed. Me, I just know how to wash whites and denim and regular cotton colors.
Everything else, I send out to the cleaners.
As for global warming, well Al Gore was in YOUR COUNTRY recently, blaming HIS COUNTRY (usa) for many of the problems. He’s the man who should have won the US presidency in 2000, when Geo. Bush more or less stole it from him.
Now, Gore has a Nobel Peace Prize and is trying to fight global warming, and Bush has a costly, humiliating quagmire in Iraq.
And I’m still cold.
~ B.