December 11, 2007
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The Weather Outside is Frightful
There is a layer of ice over everything. It started late Saturday night and it’s just gotten thicker and thicker until around 2PM today. The temp got above freezing and a steady light rain fell and melted a lot of the ice. But we’re supposed to get another coating tonight.
I was worried that my young tender tree in the back yard would break from all the ice, but thankfully it did not. I hope it fares as well tonight.
I did have a precious few flowers that were still blooming, but I suspect that they’ll be toast once the thaw is complete.
Comments (6)
Have been watching the Weather Channel and thinking about you, Alice and Gil.
I sometimes think the younger trees do better with the ice. They bend easier without breaking. Hope that holds true for your tree! That is one vicious storm. Was so glad our kids and grands stayed ahead of it with their bus.
Got a call from them Monday night. They had just crossed the border into Arizona, on their way to Phoenix for a few days. My family is all in that area, (dad, sis, niece and nephew) and one of Ken’s nieces is there, too. They want to visit them all.
We don’t have the ice, but we have had snow every couple days—only an inch or two at a time—but I am sick of winter already. Maybe I feel that way because I see our son and family in warm country now, and want to be there, too!
I think you all got it worse than us in out part of Oklahoma…I hope you don’t lose power. My mother in law lives in Norman..her power was off…
I was worried about your little tree too. I had a couple of bushes right over like my privet and one of my nadinas. The nandina had popped up straight after the mini thaw yesterday.
Poor birds can’t get a drink in this bird bath. Maybe they catch the drips off the end of icicles.
Oklahoma is not too gracious to a former Texan. Sorry. :love: :love: :love: Mom
I love the picture of the poor rudbeckia all covered with ice. :good-job: