Winter Won't Give Up

It's not looking to promising outside.  I'm talking about the coating of freezing rain we are receiving late this afternoon.  Started out this morning as wet snow, but has quickly changed over to steady rain that instantly freezes on contact.

In fact, I'm worried about loosing electricity if the freezing rain keep ups, so blogging has come a little earlier in the day than normal in case we loose power tonight.  Those 20-25 mph winds are not helping the situation either.

It doesn't take much rain to instantly freeze on contact to branches, cars, roads or anything that stands still.  Went for a run when the precipitation was mostly sleet, but halfway through, it turned icy.  Dropped 2 degrees in one hour while I run through the wet slushy roads.  Upon returning home, I saw the a cumulative ice building-up on the tree branches.  Not good I said to myself!  Any ice coating tree branches means branches snapping on power lines.....this is exactly what happened earlier in the week to Southern Minnesota.

So what about Bike man?  Oh, he's ice fishing down on the lake!!!  Geez, he better have taken his life vest with him.  I'm hoping he and his older son Mike are catching Perch in this horrible weather.  True fishermen, what can I say!