Have been worried about everyone. I have been watching this storm on Weather.com.....heard on the news the other day when I was at my friends that they were thinking there might be an ice storm along with this in the region between the snow & the rain....were saying up to an inch of ice. I was worried so much about that area after going through the ice storm here 2 years ago & the weeks of electric being off & it ended up being a disaster area....have been praying that this storm won't be that for any of those states between the rain we were getting & the blizzard snow above the ice.......was watching the pink (ice) area going through with the storm.

Hope everyone is safe......this was definitely our largest winter storm yet......wish we would have gotten a little snow out of this one....but all we got was rain & more rain & wind....very heavy wind.

Yesterday, I arrived home around 3pm with an empty tank of gas. I came in the house to do something before going out & pouring gas into my truck from my gas can. Somehow I got distracted from going back out before the storm hit & never did get back outside. I was sitting in my bedroom & all of a sudden I heard this loud noise. I couldn't place what the noise was & then I heard it again. Sounded like a door slamming. Initially I thought it came from upstairs & couldn't figure out how that sound could be happening when everything was closed up. Decided to get up & check out what caused the noise. Looked down stairs & there was the front door standing wide open. Grrrr.....somehow I had forgotten to fasten the dead bolt on the front door & had just closed it thinking I was going to be going back outside. I have taped around the door on the inside because I can't find thick enough weather stripping to seal the door.....so the tape had helped hold the door shut until the wind really started blowing.....had ended up slamming the door open.....glad I caught it when I did.....this wind has been so very bad with very low temps & heavy rain at times.

Hope everyone is safe & sound.....even if burried in show...just praying that no one is blanketed in ice........I know for me that even though the ice is so very beautiful....it's so much more dangerous than the snow or rain.