Fog and Ice

It's not good here.  Sunday we got a good coating of freezing rain and sleet.  It is really bad for me as I use a cane and don't think they are much help on ice.  I park close to my porch but there is still ice between me and my van.  My mail comes in at the Post Office so I like to go up there every day and get it.  It means walking up two short flights of steps and a ramp to get inside.  The fog is so thick today too.  City streets are always more slick than the well traveled roads.  Having been a semi driver for years, I am more experienced in this kind of weather than most but it is still tricky.

Blizzard Warnings

Well here we go again. They are saying that sometime in the middle of the night we will probably get freezing rain changing to snow. Predictions are from 2 to 5 inches of snow. But that is only the half of it. The winds are going to blow from 30 to 40 miles per hour with 50 miles per hour wind gusts. That will make for zero visibility in most of the area and driving will be almost impossible. So Saturday is going to be a complete wipeout. As if that isn't bad enough, temperatures are going to be zero if they get that high on Sunday, and -15 Sunday night and extremely cold for the next several days. I am not looking forward to it.