Beautiful, terrible, dangerous. Freezing rain. I'd never experienced anything like it until I came to live in Kentucky. Liquid falling from the sky that instantly turns to ice when it lands; it encases everything in a sheet of ice which grows thicker and thicker. It started early Tuesday morning and by 7 a.m. everything was a glaze of slick, beautiful ice. As the trees became heavy from the load of ice, tree branches started breaking. All through the night on Tuesday, the popping sound of branches made January sound like the 4th of July. When the transformers around town began to blow as tree branches fell on power lines, the sky lit up and a booming noise accompanied. I slept little on Monday and Tuesday nights but I still had electricity. Wednesday a.m. about 9 my lights flickered and went out. The temperature inside plummeted. The next 48 hours were chilly to say the least. Tonight I am blessed to have electricity again and I am snug and warm. 9000 other residents in my county are not so fortunate and I pray for them as they are in shelters, staying with friends or trying to sleep in a cold house. It finally warmed up today and melted all the ice. I will return to work after being out since last Tuesday. We are expecting snow again before morning.
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