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For those of us in the middle of the US, this is a weekend to batten down the hatches and stay home. We had plans to be visiting friends tomorrow, but it's been cancelled. We're where moisture coming up from the gulf is meeting an arctic front coming down, and it looks like it'll be bad. The forecast got a lot worse in the last hour or two, and it dropped 20+ degrees, that it wasn't supposed to do until late tonight. We're under a flash flood warning now, changing to ice storm later tonight.
I woke poor Karl from his nap and sent him out to do grocery runs NOW, while it's still possible to drive. They say travelling will be hazardous to impossible, power outages very likely. Ice of a quarter to a half inch on roads - I expect the northerners will scoff, but nobody down here is prepared to deal with that. We can just spend the rest of the weekend here at home.
It was originally only supposed to be a problem Saturday - Sunday said rain, high 40. Now it says heavy freezing rain, high 30. Gah. Fortunately Jamie has Monday off school, so that's one less thing to worry about.
Oh darn - I just checked it again - it had dropped from 66 to 45, then 42, now it's 36. I hope he drives carefully.
However - we will NOT be bored. For, joyous and rejoicing, glee and happy dancing, Karl checked the mail before he left, and there was a priority mail package from California, with a Bujold ARC. YAY! I opened the package, thinking to sneak in some reading before he got back. At which point he will have dibs, only fair since it is his birthday present.
But the seller *gift-wrapped* it. I don't have the heart to take it off, when it's so appropriate that his present be gift-wrapped. So my scruples are costing me my early read. Well, I still will be reading it way earlier than June.
I woke poor Karl from his nap and sent him out to do grocery runs NOW, while it's still possible to drive. They say travelling will be hazardous to impossible, power outages very likely. Ice of a quarter to a half inch on roads - I expect the northerners will scoff, but nobody down here is prepared to deal with that. We can just spend the rest of the weekend here at home.
It was originally only supposed to be a problem Saturday - Sunday said rain, high 40. Now it says heavy freezing rain, high 30. Gah. Fortunately Jamie has Monday off school, so that's one less thing to worry about.
Oh darn - I just checked it again - it had dropped from 66 to 45, then 42, now it's 36. I hope he drives carefully.
However - we will NOT be bored. For, joyous and rejoicing, glee and happy dancing, Karl checked the mail before he left, and there was a priority mail package from California, with a Bujold ARC. YAY! I opened the package, thinking to sneak in some reading before he got back. At which point he will have dibs, only fair since it is his birthday present.
But the seller *gift-wrapped* it. I don't have the heart to take it off, when it's so appropriate that his present be gift-wrapped. So my scruples are costing me my early read. Well, I still will be reading it way earlier than June.