It was quite interesting driving around today. There are a bzillion icecicles on everything. Cars are encased in an inch or more of ice. Trees are giant ice sculptures. The roads are not particularly bad, but every few miles there's a branch hanging right down into the road, and this always seems to happen just as someone is coming in the other direction.
There was almost nobody on the roads today, which is just as well, and is probably the reason that I saw not one single accident. However, a small plane went down near somerset, and from the pictures, it was because of ice.
I need to get my printer working again, so that I can print some of the pictures I've taken. Although the printer was detected immediately, it does not seem to be printing anything but plain text correctly, and I just don't have the patience to wrestle with it right now.
Headin' West, where the oblongicles don't roam
Had another ice storm today; quite boring compared to the one last year, but still enough to cause astonishing wreckage on the roads. This one was predicted for days, but a DOT person on the WRAL news just now said they didn't expect it and so arrived...