October 19, 2014

First Snow


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  1. Beautiful! Our high today is predicted to be 68F. It's 49F right now, and I'm wearing a sweatshirt lol. We sometimes don't even get snow, so I'm enjoying your picture :)

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    1. but we get ice! When I was little we usually got snow every year, but now we can't count on that. Ice is not nearly as much fun...

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    2. I sometimes see photos from ice storms (usually from the US coast, I think) and it looks absolutely horrid. And dangerous. But beautiful.

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    3. Yes, so beautiful, like a fairyland! But the romance fades when you can't get out at all, when the weight of the ice brings down the trees and power lines and you have no utilities, when the ground everywhere is a solid layer of slick-as-glass. And this in the South where the stores sell out of milk, bread and eggs at a hint of snow, and where nobody has any experience driving on it. There are pictures on google from the one 20 years ago everybody still talks about: https://www.google.com/#q=memphis+ice+storm+1994 We dread the ice.

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    4. Oh dear, those pictures. I imagine it´s like war stories. I think every one knows someone who got really hurt in weather like that.

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    5. At least I don't know anyone who got hurt. Everybody I know cowered in their homes with blankets wrapped around them. At the time, my husband worked next door to the house, and he picked his way across the parking lot very very carefully. ;)

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    6. That´s the only sane thing to do!

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