Ice Storm!

[sundial]

Beth, are you guys getting any freezing rain or sleet?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I hope those of you still without power are ok. I know the temps warmed up today a lot here in NY near Albany. The ice here has melted off the trees. Many thousands of people in NY and MA and other places in the NE are STILL without power but thankfully they will not freeze today.
Tonight is supposed to be rainy, but by tomorrow temps are plummeting well below freezing again.

It's been awful for so many people....I feel lucky considering what others are still going through.
DH wants to buy a generator after this is over, needless to say.

[mudmucker]

Bambu - yup that's certainly western Mass. I am at 1200 feet and it's a big difference between rain and snow for MA.

bmccasland - thanks. I think I'd rather lose power in the summer. I get cold easily. But then, I don't live in N.O. either so I might speak differently if I went through that experience down there. Well, the circumstances are imposed so I don't have to choose.

Bleeker St - good you were able to get out of the woods a little earlier but 2.5 days isn't fun nontheless. It got old by noon on Friday...

Jolt, you are in the Worcester Highlands (physiographically) - that's great you didn't get that affected

some things of note:
- for about 2 days the yard was sooo fragrant with green, the evergreen smell of broken trees was heavenly
- the inside isn't that bad either - I've been using fragrant vanilla and lavender pillar soy candles the last 5 days, mmm
- for the first 3 days I kept flicking the light switch on and off everytime I entered a room, and was reminded I needed to flick the flashlight on instead.
- I never owned any Ibex or smartwool items. With the TE pi sale I got ibex and smartwool lightweight and midweight tops, a smartwool midweight half zip and some smartwool bottoms at another store. They are sooo warm, so much warmer than the polypro I have. I have been living in them, so to speak, for the last 5 days. I had just handwashed them all 2 days before the storm hit so they were nice and fresh. Bought them in the nick of time.

[bmccasland]

Beth, are you guys getting any freezing rain or sleet?

Neither. Dare I mention that it was 72 muggy degrees? Had the back door open until the mosquito invasion got too bad. Is currently in the 60s, foggy, grey. The cold front is just north of us and the weather prognosticators are taking stabs at whether it'll dip south or not.