Starting to glaze over in Central NH. My Gadsden flag is frozen flying, even when it’s not windy - kinda cool.
If it keeps icing like this for 24 hours, as they predict, it’s going to be a major disaster.
In my part of SC it is like May today but in 1968 and 1969 we had bad ice storms, 1969 was the worst. I lived then in Cheraw, just south of the NC line, it was a huge rain and every drop froze, dropping huge trees on houses, every power line was down flat on the ground. For months afterward you heard chain saws running TWENTY FOUR HOURS a day, seven days a week as people tried to clean up their downed trees. The utility companies concentrated on getting power back to the workplaces first, the plant where I worked was shut down for a full week and it was one of the first to open back up. Some houses in the country didn’t get power back for months. Then in 1973 we had seventeen inches of snow where I live now and up to 25 inches in one location in South Carolina. We were having really extreme weather events, must have been global warming I suppose.
Here in southern NH, it is hanging in at 36 degrees with a gloomy drizzle to match the Obama Economic Recovery!