Does the ice storm cometh?

The temperature dipped down to -5* today and the weather forecast predicted an ice storm. A mixture of ice pellets, freezing rain and snow. We are on a weather watch.

After breakfast all the boys huddled around the TV to watch Stoke play Everton (they won 4-3). Moo and I went to my bedroom and we watched the end halves of Downton Abbey and Call The Midwife. We locked the door so the silly billies couldn't rush in and rub our heads when their team scored.

Because we moved stuff around in the bedroom to accommodate us, we then had a general tidy and clean in there. All things were moved like bed and drawers and bedside tables, everything dusted and hoovered and put away. All spick and span in our bedroom. The boys played on the Wii.

We had lunch and then we all played the new Catan game. It took another two hours but this time we finished it. Small won. We sent the boys for showers and then we started clearing out Small's room. We managed to remove a shelf unit and he got rid of all of his wrestlers, a wrestlers ring (Smallest had these), a big box of bionicles and a few books. He now has room to swing a huge cushion that didn't really fit before. We also cleaned, dusted and hoovered in there too. All spick and span in Small's room.

The boys played on the Wii and the big 'uns got some dinner ready. Today we raided the freezer of all things we made and froze and had a big eat up, including the veg from Christmas Dinner.

Tonight (in about three minutes apparently) we are due snow which will turn to heavy snow, which could turn to ice pellets and freezing rain. Due to the fact this kind of weather caused huge disruptions two years ago, we are prepared. We have filled the bath with water (when our power goes out, our well stops working, therefore we get no water to the toilets), we filled a multitude of bottles with drinking water (the water stops coming to our taps too), we got candles ready, charged all phones, IPads, devices etc and got the hot water bottles ready. Hopefully it will not affect us this year but at least we are ready this time.

 

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