Hello Rob!

** On Tuesday 30.12.25 - 08:40, you wrote:

 RM> I did my 2 week shopping today even though we'd gotten a
 RM> fair amount of freezing rain the night before. It wasn't
 RM> all that bad, the highways were mostly dry pavement but
 RM> the back roads were almost glare ice. The snow piles on
 RM> the sides of the road looking like shiny white glass, and
 RM> walking up and down the hill from my place on the shiny
 RM> bedrock was tricky, to say the least..

I am surprised that the Monday night ice-storm didn't even  
cause a minor glitch/bump/outage! Tues morning, my truck had an  
easy 1/4" layer of ice on the windshield (about the same  
thinkness as my smartphone in its case).  Took at least 30 min  
to warm up the truck enough to just loosen the bottom half of  
the ice (closest to the air vents). Total time to clear the  
windshield and part of the side windows, 50 min!


 RM> But they were calling for much colder temps and close to
 RM> 20cm (8 inches) of snow this afternoon and overnight
 RM> tonight so I figured I'd better drive in today if
 RM> possible.

That snowfall did not happen in my region.


 RM> [...] My heaters were running pretty non stop earlier but
 RM> it seems to be calming down some now. (1:30 AM)

Yes.. the constant winds outside did not help retain the heat  
inside too well. My inside room temp was 19.9 or less most of  
the time.  Other parts of the house were cooler.
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  ../|ug

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