Good luck with your dirty job [dirty deed?]! I know in your case NO sheep are involved!

The freezing rain has just began in force at my home.

How it works was explained by one of our meteorologists is like this:

1. It's snowing tens of thousands of feet up.

2. The snow falls through a layer of warm air and melts into droplets

3. The droplets become small spherules of supercooled liquid water as they fall through a freezing layer of air and as long as they are round and moving they remain liquid. But as temps are so cold on the surface the moment that water droplet hits a tree branch, a power line, the road or your sidewalk it instantly flattens and freezes in under a second.

That is why the trees and power lines fall in an ice storm, when in summer it would be barely two inches of rain soaking into the ground, but in Winter it weighs down and destroys everything it sits upon. 3/4 inches of ice on a power line far exceeds its weight and will break it, the same goes for tree branches.

Hey who else combines science with ridiculous music?

Edit to add: I put food out for the outdoor critters this morning too.


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