If there’s a single person out and about this morning in Seymour, they didn’t come from my end of town. It’s around 10:30 AM and 26° F. So far, we have a covering of ice but nothing is thickly coated. The temperature is dropping.
Yesterday, late afternoon, chili and brownies were being picked up in the rain.
By midnight, there was still only light rain and when I went to bed at 4:00 AM, (yup… 4:00 AM!), the rain was changing to freezing rain. In between there somewhere we had a few pellets of sleet fall. Too sleepy to take a photo, I grabbed this one first thing this morning with my trusty iPhone:
REMC (our electric cooperative that serves many rural areas of Jackson County) posted on FB that power lines are starting to “gallop” — winds pushing on the icy lines lifts them up, causing a jumping or galloping motion. This causes lights to flicker and lines to break. Some outages have already occurred.
We have just a thin layer of ice here so far.
Winds are beginning to pick up a bit but are forecasted to gust up to 35 MPH later in the day. It’s currently doing something because I can hear precipitation hitting the windows. No snow yet.
Jackson County has been declared a RED travel county by the Indiana Department of Homeland Security. Red is the highest level of travel advisory — restricted to emergency management workers only. Walmart and gas stations remain open but most everything else is closed — including local factories. We did get mail. (Neither rain nor sleet nor… you know the rest.)
So far we have power, Internet, and coffee. Settled in for part two of snowmageddon 2022, the only thing we’re sure will remain is the coffee. Oh… and dog treats.
