TAKE ME BACK TO FLORIDA!!
Ha, ha....that's what my "Swinging Gator" is saying to me today. Boy, oh boy - we had another blast from Mr. Freeze starting on Thursday. Of course, school was cancelled yesterday - I think the district has now used all of it's snow days. First, it started to sleet, which turned into freezing rain. Tulsa dodged an ice storm bullet, Thank you God!
The City of Tulsa had brought in utility workers from surrounding states in case we had a repeat of the ice storm of 2007. Just google it - you'll find out how bad it was. They were staged at the Tulsa Fair Grounds which is only a few blocks from us.
I bought lots of extra candles and firewood in case. So happy that we didn't have any power outage - so far, anyway. All the precipitation stopped late last night and the official report is 6.5 inches of snow on top of 1/2 inch of ice. I'm not going to be driving today - ha!! For all my relatives in Florida - these are icicles. Just kidding you guys - I know you've had a bad winter there too.
And so, even though it makes getting around difficult and the pooch and I would like to get out for a walk, the snow is beautiful. Tomorrow is supposed to go above freezing, so I am hoping this round doesn't stay for 3 weeks like the Christmas Eve "blizzard". There was more snow in our yard this time, so I'll call this one the end of January blizzard.
Reporting in from the corner of 7th and Toledo in Tulsa....
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