We sure had some freezing rain last night!

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New Hamburg Ontario

        Last night we just had more weather, rain, freezing rain strong winds, but we were "snug as a bug in a rug"  Toasty warm, lulled to sleep with the rocking from the wind a pitter patter of rain and hail on of roof. Love getting all snuggly in this kinda weather (not much else to do!).

        Up early as usual and once there was some daylight I looked out the dinette window to see what its like out there. Wow look at the ice covered branches, and trees.

this branch about 8 ft away from the window

large tree on the lawn fell away from the cars, and our coach,
good thing, this pic taken from our kitchen window.

  

more ice on the west side of our coach this morning

       With this weather the school busses were cancelled again and a lot of power outages all over the area, some businesses closed too. We had chiropractor appointments in Waterloo for 9:30 this morning so in order to get the 1/2 inch of ice off the car I let it run for about 15 minutes first then scrapped the windows. Hmm,,, This poor 11 year old car has never seen this much ice and never been driven on a road laden with salt for melting the ice. AND it's been a while since we had to deal with this s&*t.

very thick ice here

        Made out way to Waterloo about 30 minute drive, the roads were great, but with the power outages many intersections the traffic lights were not working. So the standard stop and yield and let the traffic move. But you know its really amazing how many people do not know what to do when they get to an intersection and the traffic lights are not working! Some people, slow down and don't stop, some stop and wait and wait not sure what to do, can be very frustrating. But we made it all thru town to both appointments and a visit with my mother for lunch.

this ice covered car was parked beside us in Waterloo

ice covered trees

        Heading in the subdivision where ma lives quite a few trees had fallen, from the heavy ice and high winds.

on the roof of this house

        We had a real nice visit with ma, she provided a very tasty KFC chicken lunch (quick and easy). Coffees and beverages. Then I made a few adjustments and upgrades to her computer before heading back to the farm and relax a few minutes after our back adjustments. Then reinstall our wireless router here at home for our wifi.

        The afternoon weather was a bit milder soo, all this ice on the trees was plummeting to the ground and whatever was in its way there. Huge heavy peaces of ice about the size of golf balls and about as heavy. Banging on the vehicles and to roof of our coach, luckily none hit us on the head!

        Not sure about damage yet will have to wait until the weather clear up a bit before I get on our roof.

HUGE ice chunks

        Then a discussion with Sandy about what to do for supper. Let's clean out the fridge, lotsa leftovers so, just fried up a mess of potatoes and onions. Left over pork, veggies and gravy in another pan add a tossed salad and we had a very tasty filling meal, cleaned up the leftovers too. Oh yeah and even had enough left for somebody to have for lunch tomorrow.

very tasty supper tonight

        Thanks for stopping in for a peak, we always have something to do here, even if its just dealing with the weather and stuff.
         By Sunday its gonna start to warm up and be almost nice, yippee looking forward to that!

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