We are so glad we have a fireplace and a garage! The fireplace has been awesome to study and warm up by, and best of all, if we lose power (as predicted...), we'll still be cozy warm. We ordered a full cord of wood (4'x8'x16') 2 months ago, and still have over 2/3 of it sitting in our garage, nice and dry. We've seen plenty of people ice-picking their way through their wood pile, but not us! Our car is also sitting in the garage, dry and ice-less. It's nice to drive to school and see everyone who had to scrape a little 2'x2' window in their windshield, and our car is spotless.
We both got the day off of work/school since they canceled classes at KCOM, and Mike didn't have to work since ATSU is part of the same college. He did have a final at Truman today, which still held classes. I think Truman was the only school still open, all public and private were closed today and I'm sure a few will be tomorrow. Seems kind of funny to have an "Ice Day" instead of a snow day, not that we're complaining.
We saw something interesting on our way home from Truman. We stopped at Hy-Vee to get some food for supper (mmm...meatloaf) and I noticed a tree smoking. One of the branches had fallen on the power lines and was starting to smolder and smoke. We called 911 from across the street and while we were on the phone with them the tree caught on fire. A few seconds later the line started buzzing and then snapped, landing on someones front porch. The police showed up soon after, but it was really neat to watch (from a safe distance). That power line is one of two downed lines we saw within 0.5 miles of our house, I'm sure it's only time before one is close enough to take out our power.
The icy weather kind of stinks but the trees behind our house look pretty...
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You should blow these up and frame them! Very cool pictures!
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