“And now, let’s go to Ollie Williams with the weather.”
It was 55 Degrees on Sunday afternoon, with detectable humidity in the air.
By Monday morning, it was 1, with a wind chill of -25. There were reports of thundersnow in the foothills to our east. Last night it was -5 or so.
Along the way, I learned a few things:
- If you soak a t-shirt and leave it outside in such weather, it will freeze solid in 90 seconds.
- A garage door can flash-freeze to the concrete beneath it, requiring a sharpened spade shovel to dislodge.
- Boiling hot water thrown into the air becomes a cloud of steam.
- A cup of regular water thrown up into the air will freeze and thud onto the ground.
- A 15 year old Camry will still start, but will not come to operating temperature (read: no cabin heat) on a 20 minute drive to work.
- Power steering fluid loses i
- Thermal underwear is your friend.
- I love natural gas heat. Temp in my house has remained 70 degrees, and the upstairs & downstairs furnaces haven’t broken a sweat.
- The hawk i swerved around on the way out of my subdivision was either: (A) frozen to the ground next to the roadkill or (B) longed for the embrace of death to ease his suffering. Either way, he wasn’t budging.
Thankful for a warm house and power that flickered but remained on throughout the event.