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The snow has returned. I woke up this morning with about two inches (5.08 cm) covering the ground. According to the weather reporters it is supposed to continue until there is 4-6 inches, then the iceman cometh. We'll probably lose power, and since electric heat is the only heat I have for keeping my water pipes from freezing, the snow and ice could get to be a problem. The temperatures are not supposed to get above freezing all day.
All I can say is, "Bring it." I have a roof over my head and a warm bed I can crawl into. If the power goes off I'll do what I can to keep my pipes warm until it comes back on, and if that takes too long I'll try to drain the pipes. Down the road, I need to refit my cutoff valve to fit inside my house and the outside spigot I use to do that above it.
I simply haven't thought about doing this before. It would prevent me having to crawl under my house to get to the cutoff valve. I've had trouble with the previous valves I've used. The problem I've been having is associated with putting the cutoff valve below the drain spigot so that when I close the shutoff valve I can open the drain spigot above it and let all the water in the pipes in my house empty to the outside.
I went to bed fairly early and slept late. I knew there was a chance the snow would come, but I didn't really believe it would accumulate much. The freaky thing about much of the snow we get here on the coastal plains is that the instigating factor comes from the tropics via the ocean. The warm air is drawn in by the high pressure descending from Canada and rises above the cold Arctic front and that causes the snow on the coastal plains. It's not snowing that much inland toward the foothills. Aaaiiiyeee!
The snow came with no rain in front of it. The wooden deck outside and on the outside stairs was dry. I didn't realize that until I dumped a couple of pails of hot water with Epsom salt mixed in with it on the deck. After that I picked up a broom and started sweeping as much of the snow off the decks and stairs, and because they never got wet the snow swept off easily. Well, except where I put the hot salty water. I only made things worse where I splashed the water. Nevertheless it's fairly safe to walk on.
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
