When I went to work this afternoon it was in the 60s. I was wearing a polo shirt and driving around town with the window down. Then there was a thunderstorm with heavy downpours that flooded city streets… and right after that the temperature dropped to below freezing.
This was all in a one-hour period.
By the time the night was over we had a solid sheet of ice covering everything and a layer of sleet/snow on top of that. To top things off high winds and low temperatures dropped things into the subzero range. If you factor in the windchill, Tuesday had a 78 degree difference in high/low.
The icicles on the wires were from a ruptured water main on the edge of town that I came across on my way home. Water was shooting like a geyser 50-60 feet up into the air. It was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I waited around for more than 30 minutes to see if crews would show up to get it under control… thought that would make a decent photo for the paper. No one showed up in the time I was there, and I was too tired to stick around much longer. Oh well…
