Weather....

Snow everywhere. Very pretty out in the street. Cameras show the freeways are not all cleared. The freezing rain is down around Salem moving north, and it's supposed to get up here around 11 or noon.

I am working from home, I think. I mean, when the freezing rain passes, we're supposed to get just rain, and after that it'll be fine, but it sounds like it will be early afternoon before that happens and probably later before we dare to trust the weather. And they've been wrong. I'd like to see it clear before I assume it's clear.

But the street is pretty, and if it hasn't been driven into non-prettiness by the time it's light enough, I may take photographs.

I should add that it's presently still snowing, and that just about every school district possible (including the one I live in and the one I work in) are outright closed, as are most colleges and a bunch of other things.

...the local light rail....

...can't cross the Steel Bridge, because the rails are too slick for the trains to cross. Tri-Met is rerouting with buses (since it's all one organization), but there's an additional problem that they can't turn the light rails around right at the bridge because the switches are frozen!

East side light rail's effectively shut down, apparently. West side is working up to whatever point is before that.

Granted, that's nowhere adjacent to my route to work, but....

Yeah, right, 11 or noon...my poor plants!

The freezing rain arrived, probably at least a half hour ago. Looks like it is still coming down. It's definitely still too cold to melt things and, in fact, seems to just be crusting the snow from what I can see. I am not exploring this real carefully since I can just hide inside and go on with my work, however.

The bush out by the side of the house, with the glossy dark green leaves, looked quite normal when I saw it. But on a hunch I reached out to touch it, and they were coated over in ice. Cheery, that...poor plants. Oh, well. They're mostly suited for this, better than I am, and it is very pretty weather.

I even remembered that the house heat would drop to "chilly" on the weekday cycle, and turned the space heater on before it did so. It makes me less likely to take time off from my work to wander the house, because the rest of the house is, although far from freezing, cold. Here I have my music (radio station over the internet, I am so lazy), my work, and my warmth. In a couple hours I shall have to brave the chill for lunch, but I'm sure I can heat it quickly and run back up. :)

Weather and family report. :)

Scott is home. He's been home since perhaps 2:30 or 3:00. The only real problem he had was deicing the car sufficiently, apparently. Still, it's getting steadily worse out there. I just went out and took some photos of his car - the windshield and side windows are unusably covered again and there are icicles all over it. It looks like it's been parked most or all of the day, not an hour or two.

Snow photos!

Eight pictures up here.

UPDATE: 9 pictures. I snuck in a so-so one of our ice-glazed window. :)

Yes, it was snowing, hailing, sleeting, or dropping freezing rain on me during all of these photos (or if not on me, then a few inches from where I was hiding under the front porch's shelter or by a window, but most of these shots were not possible from sheltered areas). No, most of them you can't tell that in. Oh, well!