I went to bed at 1:30 this morning, woke back up at 5 o'clock which actually is pretty good for me to sleep 3.5 hours straight. I was wide awake so I got up and piddled around a little and called "time-and-temperature". At 5:30 it was raining and 40 degrees, by the time I got up this morning at 9:30 it was raining and 34 degrees. Don't know how cold it is now but the rain is starting to turn to a mushy sleet. We are expecting an ice storm.
In Oklahoma this is not unusual, we almost always have at least some ice during the winter and about every 3-5 years we have a killer ice storm. I remember two really bad ones in my lifetime. I've seen ice storms bad enough to devastate the landscape, it just splits trees in two, the weight of the ice becomes so heavy it literally rips the limbs off the trees... big limbs. Our tree lined city streets become impassable. During an ice storm at night you hear loud cracks and bangs echoing through the woods as trees give way to ice. It sounds like cannon shots. It gives me a sick feeling to hear it.
Of course, life comes to a stand still and the only people out and about are the ranchers in their big pick-up trucks with chains and four wheel drive and idiots. The local good ol' boys drive around to help the idiots out of the ditches or take them home to safety.
Every year at the beginning of fall I do a fall stock-up of batteries, candles, fill extra water bottles, buy a few extra canned goods for the pantry. Ten years ago after being without electricity for almost a week we invested in a generator, now we have two.
My biggest concern right now is that Levi is at work and will be driving home in this sometime today and the fact that Seth was supposed to leave for a three day trip to Dallas tomorrow morning. He is not a happy boy.

I will be home, close to the heater, drinking coffee and reading a book that Christi brought me.