Friday, January 12, 2007
Odd... Very Odd
Our silly little charade of spring in January has ended as it always does; with a huge slab of sub-zero air sliding down from the North Pole. It's odd though; usually when there is a rapid, massive temperature change like this, there are strong winds accompanying it. In this case, the cold air just appeared at the door, as it were; this morning I was down to the pond, and it was still sparkling and ice-free. In a matter of hours it has frozen up, as the temperature dropped another 14 degrees, with no wind to speak of... very odd. On the bright side, we aren't St. Louis; they are just about to enter a huge ice storm, with up to an inch of ice, then continuing freezing rain off and on for the next two days. St. Louis has been through weather hell this year; a severe summer storm with tornadoes and then a severe winter storm both had hundreds of thousands of people without power for up to weeks on end, and now this. My wife's elderly uncle had just gotten back in his house after being evacuated due to no electricity for a couple of weeks from the last storm... I think he'd better keep his bags packed. 
// posted by IBOY @ 12:38 PM 
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We had the wind, too. I hope that your wife's uncle is okay... these kinds of things are particularly rough on the elderly, it seems.
Hmmm... we still haven't had much wind; we seem to be right between the storms. St. Louis has something like 10,000 people without power from the first round of ice, with more coming.
Don
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