yay for ice storms and a brief conversation at 3:45am
Major ice storm in my world last night, really had it all broken trees all over the place, lightening pounding wind and rain/ice, power outage you name it. I use my cell phone as a back up alarm clock, I usually wake up on my own but you never know.
3:40 AM ( I had been awake for about 30 minites) normal wake up time for me on a training day. I make some food eat and am out the door by 4:15 at the gym by 5:00AM.
I rise and christine mutters:
"The power is out"
"I know hun" I whispher back
"Did you hear all the trees?" She asks
"Yeah, but none hit the house, I think" I respond wearily
"Are you going to work and train today?" She says
"Well, yeah if I can get out of the driveway its either a sheet of ice or its melting"
Now my alarm goes off on my cell phone
"Why is that so loud?" her voices rises a bit
"So it wakes me up" was my reply
"Can you turn that down, that would wake me up" She exclaims
"You are already awake, go to sleep and stop fooling around" My voice rising slightly
"drive safe Peter" then she rolls over.
No power, no hot food so I pack my lunch and get outside. Holly shit what a scene there are fucking branches down all over the guy next to me has a major issue with his pine tree it looked to me like it split.... but it was dark. Now the roads are fine the ice didnt stick so traction isnt a problem. I make it out of my street and on to the backroad to the highway. Literally 10-15 major branches all over the road.
Im not ancient but I have seen enough major storms to know that this one brought down a lot of trees. Got to the highway and was smooth sailing. Trained and am now at my desk, get an email from the weather center at channel 5 that my kids school is cancelled. So I call home, no answering machine because of no power. She didnt pick up, maybe she turned the ringer off. I'll try again later.
If this is how the winter is going to kick off then were in for a shit season.
3:40 AM ( I had been awake for about 30 minites) normal wake up time for me on a training day. I make some food eat and am out the door by 4:15 at the gym by 5:00AM.
I rise and christine mutters:
"The power is out"
"I know hun" I whispher back
"Did you hear all the trees?" She asks
"Yeah, but none hit the house, I think" I respond wearily
"Are you going to work and train today?" She says
"Well, yeah if I can get out of the driveway its either a sheet of ice or its melting"
Now my alarm goes off on my cell phone
"Why is that so loud?" her voices rises a bit
"So it wakes me up" was my reply
"Can you turn that down, that would wake me up" She exclaims
"You are already awake, go to sleep and stop fooling around" My voice rising slightly
"drive safe Peter" then she rolls over.
No power, no hot food so I pack my lunch and get outside. Holly shit what a scene there are fucking branches down all over the guy next to me has a major issue with his pine tree it looked to me like it split.... but it was dark. Now the roads are fine the ice didnt stick so traction isnt a problem. I make it out of my street and on to the backroad to the highway. Literally 10-15 major branches all over the road.
Im not ancient but I have seen enough major storms to know that this one brought down a lot of trees. Got to the highway and was smooth sailing. Trained and am now at my desk, get an email from the weather center at channel 5 that my kids school is cancelled. So I call home, no answering machine because of no power. She didnt pick up, maybe she turned the ringer off. I'll try again later.
If this is how the winter is going to kick off then were in for a shit season.