Ohio Weather

(Not my picture, just off the internet, but this is what it looked like here)

So I had to blog about the crazy winter we have experienced this year in Ohio. Apparently this year has been worse than most, but let me tell ya, there have been more snowy (icy, rainy) days this winter than cloudy and sunny combined. It's been almost every day since the beginning of December! And the snowy days aren't too bad, we've had worse in Utah except for the fact that it's almost constant and takes forever to melt. But the ice storms! I've never experienced anything like it!

Imagine that instead of a couple of inches of snow coating everything, you have 1/2 in to 2 in of ICE covering everything! I mean everything! Every branch and trunk of every tree, your car, the power lines, the ground (on top of the old snow) it's insane! Branches were all over because they were too heavy and just broke off! Power was off in many places for days! (Luckily ours was just off for a couple of hours for one day). Which means no heat! We had a leak in our ceiling so I went outside to see if I could figure out where it was coming from and I could only go 2 steps out cause I was slipping and sliding everywhere! I couldn't even grab the tree cause it was covered in ice and slippery! And the next day when it was over and we needed to go to the store for a plunger (our toilet was clogged) it took a 1/2 hour to break all the ice on our car so we could get in. I mean, imagine 1 - 2 inches of ice covering your windows! You don't scrape like you do frost, but you pound until you can crack it to break a slab off. I mean, it was crazy! I've never experienced anything like it.

And then just a couple days ago, after a large snow storm, we got an entire night of thunder storms and rain. You can only imagine what that would do! Luckily we didn't have any flooding by our house, but one of the schools I subbed at was built right next to a large park. That park was a lake! Picture of flood (it wouldn't let me copy and paste) And it spilled out onto the playground, and the roads which had to be closed because they were rivers. It was crazy! Things are still trying to dry out from that experience.