Well the it might or it might not storm mighted. We got snow and ice and frigid temperatures. Over 3000 power outages affecting over 100,000 in Portland. We kept our power, just one quick dip out and back.
Brent shoveled the driveway and walk yesterday...for two hours. But with the sunshine today it's perfectly cleared off now so it was the right call. Even if I was getting ready to tell him he had to come inside that it was 15 degrees for fuck's sake.
We've been cycling the hummingbird feeders in and out to make sure they have food. We've had a pretty consistent stream of them around the feeder for the past few days. Though Brent said that one of them didn't make it through the night. Poor little guy. I mean Brent. He's taking it very hard. I keep telling him there was nothing he could do, and that it's just extreme temperatures. That we did what we could with the food and that's all we could do. He still feels terrible.
The Winterhawks game went from postponing the Pride celebration aspect of it to cancelling the whole game when the teams and the officials couldn't make it to the rink on Saturday. There is a game today, right now actually, that they are playing but we decided not to go. I'm sure the main roads are fine but our neighborhood is still pretty iced in and I just would rather not.
It's hard to get really motivated to do anything outside when the high is a teen.
Though to be honest, today we are in the 20s. Basically a heat wave.
And we aren't anywhere close to the worst weather in the states right now. Huge swaths of the country are at or below zero. For highs! It's been crazy.
The good news is that we have another ice storm coming tomorrow!
Oh wait, that's not good news at all is it?
Yeah, one more round of ice starting tomorrow afternoon through early Wednesday morning. Hopefully it won't be a lot, but they are predicting up to a half inch. A half inch of ice is a LOT of ice. So we will cross our fingers and hope the power holds again.
And also hope that the thaw happens right away on Wednesday. Katie is supposed to come up from Bend on Wednesday to do her home inspection on Thursday. If we get a lot of ice she's not going to be able to make it. If that happens I'll go in her place, but we'd both rather she was able to be here.
I'm still sticking with my complaint that it's 2024 and I have no idea why we can't control the weather.
Though to be fair....we kind of have. I mean the extreme weather we have is partially due to climate change right? And we did that.
So yay us...
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