We're on the way back up

by Slow Hand , Indiana, Tuesday, January 07, 2014, 21:39 (3916 days ago) @ John K.

We were down to -14 last night, wind chills in the -45 to -50 range. We got nearly a foot of snow (11.8") Sunday night. Started out wet and clumpy but the temps drops as it kept coming down so we have 2-3 foot drifts all around. I finally got on the roads some this evening. Even major roads, state highways, etc are like old washed out gravel roads, except its slick ice Instead of dirt and stone!

I went out in the garage today to do some Kydex work and it was down to about 27. I kicked on the salamander and it got up to around 55 in a hurry! Guess we got lucky that no pipes froze up last night. We left cabinets open and faucets running to prevent it.

We had a freezer full of meat and a couple of shelves full of dry goods. That, along with 20 gallons of gas for the generator and 10 gallons of diesel for the salamander and we were good for just about anything!!

It got up to +9 today and is supposed to be upper 20's tomorrow, then into the upper 40's by the weekend, so it'll all be a memory by Monday!

Jenny was reading in the paper today that this past Saturday was Kroger's single highest sales day in their history!!
Things were defined flying off the shelves! We grabbed a couple extra gallons of milk just due to the fact that all four of us would be home for a few days, but other than that, we were good to go.