How big a circle do you find to be ideal?
You should be okay if the freezing rain moves through quickly, but if it hangs around and keeps building up on things, then there could be some difficulty.
Batten the hatches, make a trip to your favorite mercantile if necessary for some batteries, candles and a Coleman lantern and cook stove. Ya never know how long those power lines may be on the ground.
It's 9 degrees here (Minnesota) right now, so freezing rain isn't a worry. They say we may get some snow though. We have nary a flake on the ground right now and have only had about ten inches all winter so far, which came in two doses and promptly melted.
Good luck!
Maybe this cold temps are freezing me brain, not sure what you mean here? Anyway, we here in the south don't adapt or cotton to winter weather much. With all the northerners that have transplanted here you'd think we'd learn a thing or two from them-- at least in this regard. For some reason we always get freezing rain, sleet rather than snow. Couple times a yr.
We've already gotten plenty of provisions and just hope we don't lose power due to falling power lines. Another thing about our winter weather forecasts, they are only accurate about 50% of the time. Hope they're wrong this time.