[eskielover]

I keep the weather.com on my internet all the time to keep track of what the weather is like outside....as if I can't just look out & see it, or step out the door & feel that it's more than just cold.

But I like to see what the future might hold, since this Kentucky weather is so different from anything I have experienced before.

So the huge warning this week is that the warm air is coming in over the cold that is currently over the area......giving way to No....not snow......but ICE STORM. Everyone sounds like it's a pretty horrible thing....something I haven't experienced before, so haven't the foggiest idea of what I might be dealing with.

The last week, we had freezing rain...it was strange waking up in the morning with all the branches hanging on the trees, weighted down with a layer of ice on them....i'm figuring that an ice storm it that only worse.

Kentucky had handed me out more weather in these last few months than I have lived with for a lifetime. When I bought the farm......the thunder storms were huge & my poor doggie would just run & hide as he heard the thunder coming.....then came the drought....no rain....too try to dig a hole in the ground because of how dry it was.

Now came winter......my first snow fall Jan 1....way to start the new year....my favorite SNOW. We have had several days of the light stuff so that by afternoon, it's all gone....then in the middle of winter.....I was stuck in the basement most of the night for the tornadoes.....I heard that there were 15 tornadoes that touched down around this area.....that's a bit much for me..........the California person who only has to deal with earthquakes & hurricane force wind that blew a tree down on my neighbors house.....oops.

We have had COLD weather here...continuous all winter....from the California desert that stays in the 40's during winter to here that is in the teens constantly.....my California blood isn't ready for that...neither are my doggies.

I took daddy dog out for his potty walk this morning...was getting pelted by little ice crystals. I brought him back in his crate & he stood there shivering. I got out a huge towel & wrapped him up & rubbed him dry & warm. He stood there wiggling in my arms with huge kisses for getting rid of his shivers.

I was used to winter weather in Wyoming when I would spend 2 weeks in my vacation home...sometimes -40 (no windchill). But I was only there on vacation....not living in it like I am here.

I am praying the ice storm doesn't develop like the warning states....I have plans this evening & don't want them to get messed up....I can't imagine driving on icy streets & having the trees covered with ice & breaking branches & power lines......I have a picture in my mind of what an ice storm is like.....sure am praying it doesn't develope to that extent.

Debbie

[Perna]

Oh, poor Debbie! It is weird having ice when you're use to that gentler water equivalent, fog.

Sleet, freezing rain, ice storms, they're all pretty much the same thing; it just says where the ice "starts" (freezing rain, it started as rain and froze because the air was so cold on the way down or the other way around, I don't remember; sleet it's cold all the way or the other :-) or what to expect relative to snow. Ice storms are just frozen stuff, no snow. You'll have the pretty coated trees and power lines but it might be "heavier" than the freezing rain, more of it because it will be a bit less frozen coming down than the rain, will hit cold surfaces as rain and THEN freeze, making the nice coats of ice. With freezing rain, some of the percipitation is individual drops of frozen stuff so it falls on the ground but if wet stuff falls on cold power lines, they coat and become too heavy and will snap the line. Trees have troubles too and large branches can break (fall on houses or power lines too and their added ice weight brings the lines down).

What makes ice storms so hard is they're "ice" so you can't drive on them, shovel them (you can shovel sleet and frozen rain a little because they're individual little grains), repair lines, etc. until the ice melts! So there's widespread power outages and both communication and travelling problems. Lots of car accidents and emergency rooms fill up, etc.

[dunder2007]

I am up in NY and i personally am sick of the snow. I cant wait for the summer to come and get ride of this nasty white stuff.

[splitimage]

I'm in Toronto and apparently we've had more snow this Feb. than in the last 3 winters combined. I'm more than ready for spring.

Ice storms are nasty - so I hope your's doesn't turn out to be too bad.

--splitimage

[eskielover]

so far in our area, it hasn't turned into anything big like they were making is sound.

But.......my poor doggie....I 3 of them out the front door for their potty walk....closed the door cause didn't want the freezing air in the house. When I came back a few minutes later, they all heard the door open & came scrambling for the door.....Poor Leo.....his four feet took a slide in the icy step & he slid across the porch to the front door.....don't think they will ever get used to this stuff......especially when it hurts their pride like that....lol.

I took daddy dog (Excell) out for a potty walk this morning & when I brought him back into the puppy crate....he was shivering his tail end off.....had to rub him down with a warm towel to get him warmed up.

Not sure, but don't think they really like this cold of weather.
Debbie

[eskielover]

Yes, the warning was cancelled & it didn't turn into anything like they expected here.....a bit slippery of the walkways as my doggies found out.....but we had a worse time with ice the other week than this time & they didn't even have a warning them.

That always seems like how it works.....when they warn about it...it turns up NOTHING.....when they don't see it coming, then we are in for a real mess.

I would hate to be a meterologist......they are correct only about 10% if that much....even when the clouds are on top of them.....they are wrong.....lol.

Glad in this case, it didn't turn out like they warned....I was just not into an ice storm on top of all the other storms in my life right now....didn't need the weather to do it to me also.

Debbie

[Perna]

The East Coast is just starting what they say could be 36 hours worth. All the schools closed (except the colleges which open in 3 hours; county governments are closed so what's with the colleges?). Not too bad yet though, it didn't start until 5:00 a.m. I kept peeking out under the shades all night to see whether it had started yet or not. A bust so far.