Wednesday, December 17, 2008

No ice, please

I'm about to have a small nervous breakdown. We're under an ice-storm warning starting at noon tomorrow. They're talking about an accumulation as much as 3/4", which means downed power and phone wires, plus wind, which means downed tree limbs--and in my case, downed trees. I can't decide whether the idea of being at work watching the ice build up outside upsets me more than the idea of being at home with no power and trees falling on things.

I've got my super-big candle for heating water, and batteries for my lamp and radio. I think I'll stop at the store on the way home tomorrow and get some soup, just in case.

There's supposed to be snow a day after the ice. I don't mind snow. Much.

I'm just getting old, I guess. Snow and cold weather never used to bother me. Now I see snow and think about having to shovel it, and am obsessive about warm clothes and keeping the house warm. And the idea of ice just panics me.

Even worse, I've got cat-sitting to do. One's in town; the other's way the heck out, and I have to go over the back roads because the van won't do highway speeds. It's too late to back out, but I'm going to turn down more cat-sitting jobs for this person because it's too much of a headache in this kind of weather. I'd better make sure I've got foot- and hand-warmers in the van, and put in a blanket and flashlight and food... just in case...

They said 3-6 inches of snow, and they were wrong about that--maybe they'll be wrong about this, too.

3 comments:

Monika said...

I hope it's not going to be too bad!

T-Mom said...

Thanks, Monika! Nothing to do now but wait and see. The radar shows a nasty line across the Kansas/Nebraska and Iowa/Missouri state lines, right straight across Illinois, and into Indiana.

Shay said...

I used to revel in snow. Then my first winter back in the Midwest after years and years in warmer climates, I slipped and fell on the ice and broke my arm.

Now I am a Nervous Nellie, and I just hate that.