Yucky, nasty! Those are the two best words to describe the ice storm we experienced this past Friday, March 7th.<\/p>\n
I actually headed in to work around 8am because I had decided I like to get paid for watching the nasty weather. However, God had different plans for me. I dodged several trees on Beck’s Church Road and even felt the back of my car slid a bit. At that time, the roads were covered with around an inch or so of ice. However, the thing that actually sent me home was when the police officer told me to turn around because of down electric lines in the road. On the white knuckle drive home of less than 4 miles, I watched several trees fall over, slide in the ice going up a hill and did a lot of praying.<\/p>\n
Once at home, I decided a good cleaning day would be great especially with the business of the next two weeks. However again God’s plan are always better than mine.\u00a0 Our power went out around 9am, we are very fortunate that my parents that live less than a mile away still had electricity and in fact were part of the 4% of the county that never lost power. Matt and I packed an overnight bag, grabbed our electronic and dinner that was\u00a0 in the crock pot and headed over for a visit with the dog and kids in tow. The rest of Friday was spent watching television, surfing the internet and even a couple of games of Uno. The kids had a ball and I am betting my parents enjoyed the time as well.\u00a0 By Friday evening, the ice turned to rain! We received a total of over 3 inches of precipitation on Friday.<\/p>\n
On Saturday we had a planned day of shopping in Winston. We left my parents house around 8:30 and returned home with Rugar (our dog) around 5pm that evening. We were really surprised at the amount of snow instead of ice that was received just 30 miles north of us.\u00a0 I plan to give more details of my deals in another post!<\/p>\n
Our electricity was restored around 11 am on Saturday. We are so thankful and blessed.\u00a0 The temperature on Saturday rose to around 70* and the only evidence of the massive ice storm are the abundance of trees that are laying everywhere. We have no trees in our yard so we are among the few that don’t have clean up to complete this week.<\/p>\n
Here are a couple of pictures…<\/p>\n
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