Friday, February 06, 2026

february 6 - january ice storm tennessee

 I went out at 8 am to see what the weather was like - and how much melting might or might not have happened.  I didn't even go up to the mailbox yesterday, it never melted enough to warrant - and the mail also didn't run to us yesterday, from what I saw.  They already posted in the announcements that they won't run the garbage trucks this week.  It might get up to 50 today, but it said 36 yesterday and it never got up to even 32 before 2 pm in the afternoon.  With the sun setting at 4:30 to 5, we need more than that to melt.

long shadow 

at the top of our drive it is glare ice all the way down the slope but it was white 'zamboni' ice the other day so at least we can see some of it has been moving and the thickness has gone down

this is that big crackly loud ATV (mark says Gator type machine) that ran by the other morning - Mark asks why I would photograph it, I said because that is what I am doing right now, photographing and waiting for the melt

the other hillside on the other side of our driveway - it is a very long way down there but the top has cleared in the sun

skating rink ice looking towards the sun - at least we have sun today, it had been overcast for several of the days when we could have moved some of this frozen liquid off 

looking down between the two ridges

so much is in shadow nearly all the day here between the trees that we are lucky when the sun can melt some

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