Monday, January 28, 2013

So THAT is why southerners freak out about ice storms

I lived in Chicago for 5 winters. With no car. I have seen a lot of snow. Sometimes I think southerners freak out a little too much when we're getting snow storms here and after Friday, I TOTALLY GET WHY. We had an ice storm Friday and I have never seen anything like it. It started sleeting but it wasn't small sleet. It was closer to hail size, but super sticky. When it fell from the sky, it stuck to the ground.

Storm01

Quickly, the entire ground was covered in a sheet of ice. It continued to sleet for hours, piling more and more ice on the ground. It quickly became like an apocalypse. No one was outside, no cars on the road, and everything was frozen. It stayed frozen overnight and didn't even start to melt until late morning.

Storm02

On Saturday morning, with Jon still not home from his business trip due to the ice storm, I took the boys sledding. All of us fell on the walk to the hill. Nate fell down the hill 6 times before he was able to successfully sled. So when southerners freak out about ice storms? I'm right there with them.

4 comments:

Carrie77 said...

Oooh, love the photos. So much detail.

windycityvegan said...

Having bounced around the corn belt my entire life and spending over a decade in Chicago, I have never ever ever taken Southerners' Winter Weather Freakouts seriously. Until Friday. And living in Saxapahaw, where the road in front of my house wasn't clear until 2pm on Sunday for a three-hour window before it re-froze at sundown? Well, if I believed in karma, I would say it got me back good.

Gillian said...

We got ice in St. Louis sometimes - there was a horrible ice storm about 4 days before Leo was born and I just kept hoping that I wouldn't go into labor.

Tanika Davis said...

When I lived in Kansas City, I wiped out in my car twice because of ice storms! So scary! I love the plant photo. Beautiful!