The Ice Will Kill Us All

I have decided to blog right now to take my mind off of the sounds of tree limbs snapping off and falling to the ground all around my house. It's somewhat harrowing to live in a forest at times like these. Windy weather gets scary, and today - the Ice Storm is upon us!

A few blog entries back, I mentioned that Wednesday the 22nd of December was going to involve me going out to a nice dinner with my friend and then getting dropped off in Cincinnati to stay with my other friend for a few days. Well, apparently Fate decided that my plans were not important and convinced Mother Nature to send a freak winter weather system my way. Cincinnati is getting hit with several inches of snow - they say anywhere from 8 to 16 inches of the stuff, I believe. And for some pleasant reason, outside of Cincinnati, in the direction I live, is getting fucked in the ass by hour upon hour of ice falling from the sky.

For those of you who have never been in an ice storm, I will describe it a bit for you. First, it's kind of pretty and neat. Everything is absolutely coated in ice, every blade of grass, every twig, every pebble. It's just really nice looking. But then, the trees begin to sag under the weight of it all. If the ice storm last all day, as it has here, there can be one or two or three inches coating everything, which is really quite heavy.

This is when trees snap, which they seem to be doing here. In fact, just then, I heard a tree hit the ground, a whole one. I can tell this because the house shook somewhat. And yes, I live in fear of the day when a tree decides to fall directly on our house. That would probably hurt. Also right now the electricity is flickering fairly often. I am guessing that the tree limbs are starting to hang low and hit the power lines, or maybe even the power lines themselves are getting stretched out of true by the weight of the ice. Either way, I may be plunged into darkness soon.

This would be a bad thing.

We rely on electricity to work our furnace which gives this house heat. It is 25F outside right now, and the weathermen say that it is going to be a high of 20, and the day after, a high of 11F. I expect that it would get very very cold very very quickly if this happens to us and we have no heat.

And we cannot realistically drive anywhere that does have electricity, because, as you can imagine, it is hazardous and not advisable to drive on roads that are covered with bunches of ice.

Ice is slippery.

We may be doomed!



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Wow, I did a very good job keeping my mind off of the weather with this blog entry. But, I guess it serves a purpose. If you don't hear from me for a while, know that I am plunged into darkness. And if you don't hear from me ever again, assume that I got crushed by a tree.

:(