When we went to bed it was raining but cold. The ground was too warm for the snow to build up, it just melted. So - the predicted 2" snowfall never materialized but the freezing rain did. We're lucky the power lines are still up.
I saw ice cycles on the high line wires almost 4" long. I imagine those areas to our west got it worse than we did. Same thing happened last year - last minute throes of winter. About 3 years ago, Cathy and I were boating on the lake in March. We had jackets on but it was no where near as cold as it is now.
Beautiful to look at from a distance but, as they say up in New England, it's wicked cold. I guess I shouldn't complain too much. When we were stationed in Misawa, Japan (81-84) we had a record accumulation of 127" (10' 6") of snow. It started snowing in October and our last flurry was in May. Our winds came in off the Russian Siberians and boy was it cold. You really had to bundle up when you went outside. Once the snow started falling most people gave up driving their personal vehicles and took the military bus. The last thing to melt off was the roadway, which had 6-8" of packed snow/ice. We got used to it tho. The base was kinda isolated so we wound up spending lots of time sledding on the ski slopes and drinking hot chocolate at the ski lodge. Good ole days!!?
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