“Everything you can imagine came out of the sky - rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain; and you put all of that together along with the strong winds and the bitter windchill temperatures and it’s made it a really lousy week. That’s all I can say. I can’t say anything nice about it at all. When we had the rain it actually went up to 38 degrees and a bunch of that snow turned all ice and slushy. You had two options: scrape it off or leave it in place and put some texture into it; because if you scraped it off, the next day you had a sheet of ice on your driveway. If you put some texture on it, at least maybe you could get up and down on it. Because we haven’t been able to get rid of this ice for weeks and weeks and weeks and all that snow on top of it we’re back to 11 inches sitting on the ground here at the farm.
We also had a wind gust of 52 miles an hour and the other days weren’t nice either. I mean, when it gets like that you don’t even want go out. But sometimes you have to and we really need three or four days above freezing to start really melting this stuff. What we’ve been getting is: melt the top - which goes down and makes more ice. It’s really bad when you can only go down in some cases a couple of inches and then you’ve got solid ice from there to the ground.
It looks like we’re going to get that. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, maybe even Wednesday, we’re gonna be above freezing in the upper 30s, maybe low 40s. We might finally be able to see the ground again. Let’s get rid of it and then we can start over again but we gotta get rid of what’s on this ground.
Please be careful driving because I noticed what their putting on the roads now almost looks like dirt because it hasn’t seem to melt the ice. We’re probably short of salt here just like everybody else’s and that could cause an accident. My brother broke his foot three days ago so now he’s on my list of things to help.
So please really be careful. Stay warm. Stay healthy and we’ll keep our fingers crossed that Mother Nature says ‘Okay. Enough is enough. Let’s make it nice again.’
Have a good one.” ~ Frank Ward
