after all that...

After all that miserable weather: rain, then snow, then ice, then roads that were reportedly " slippery as owl #@%&", today was an amazingly beautiful day. For which I am profoundly thankful. After being at home, inside for about two days, I was close to 'stir crazy'.

I have a bone to pick with the weather prognosticators.  I'm not looking at TV, but have seen enough on AOL to know that metro Atlanta has been getting a bad rap for not being prepared for whiteout conditions.  What the smarty-pants weather guys did not report, provide adequate warning about: the fact that it would start with rain - so the roads would be wet before the snow began. Meaning, when it got cold enough to snow, the hard surfaces would already be slick from rain that would start to freeze as the temp. dropped, thereby making the 'slick as' situation that created the havoc on the highways. To be resolved only today, when the sun warmed everything up enough for the ice to melt on the roads.

And now for today:Clear, bright and sunny. Not the warmest ever, but enough to mostly melt all the lingering snow, and heat up the roadways to make them safe for travel. It will freeze again tonight, so all those people who were skidding along the streets sideways on their way to work today, will be riding the slip'n'slide again tomorrow. If it were not so dang cold, it would be what P. describes as a 'hot mess'!

Hard to imagine that after all that cold, misery, and people stuck in traffic for hours and hours - the temp. will be up in the sixties in the next few days.  I was so happy to get out of the house, I took myself down the street for a walk. Generally try to put in a couple of miles every day, but with being house-bound on Wed., I've gotten a bit behind. So hope that tomorrow will be as sunny and pleasant as today, and I can start to get caught up. Hope the weather has moderated and more tolerable where-ever you are as well.