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8.12.05

The Ice Storm

or, this would never happen in wisconsin. in texas, though, it rains, and then it freezes when it hits something, instead of coming down in snow (or even hail) form. the upper atmosphere is too warm or something. it coats your everything in glass, and is really quite pretty. but. So car doors freeze shut in an entirely new way: instead of the edge of the car door being frozen to the car, the handle is frozen solid. you can't just chip away at it like you can a windshield because it is frozen solid on the inside, too, and volkswagen shapes their car door handles in a particularly unfortunate way. so instead of a thin sheet of ice with lots of snow on it, you get a very thick sheet of ice covering the entire vehicle. there were inch-long icicles hanging from the windshield wipers.

and you notice all this, first, because lying in bed, the dead branch that usually reaches half-way down the window outside (the one that probably won't fall on the house, but that starts way too high up and hard to get to to do anything about) is three-quarters of the way down the window instead. So you go out and look and it isn't really that particularly cold but the canoe is out of the way, at least, so that's fine then. And it'd be nice if there was a damn thing you could do about the branch. but.

scrawled @ 17:18