It’s been a messy day in Sparta. This morning it was pouring down rain/sleet/freezing rain with temperatures just below freezing. Every thing was covered in ice but the roads were fine. Steve, manager, called to let me know power had been up and down there and we would wait to open at noon. I was supposed to work 11 – 4. Temperatures finally made it above freezing this afternoon to 35 degrees. Steve decided to close at 5 to keep staff from having to drive home after dark, so I stayed to work until we closed. There is a lot of fallen debris in the roads all over the county.
The limbs in the pines along the side yard started breaking off this morning. I had this same thing in Winston with one in the back yard. They just cannot hold the weight of all the ice. It sounds like a gun going off when they break scaring Colin. I will have a mess to clean up this weekend but am so very thankful I had that black walnut tree taken down or I would have an even bigger mess.
Tonight is to be a low of 25 and windy. So far, I have not lost power here but there are a lot of outages all over the county. If the winds pick up with all this ice it could get really nasty by tomorrow morning.