Freezing Rain

The weather forecast for several days has had a prediction of freezing rain today.  Last night the time it would start moved into the afternoon and then this morning it was changed to early evening for this area.  I had at 4:00 appointment at Kaiser so I decided to keep it.  Then I got a call from Kaiser wanting to know if I could come in at 2:40.  I didn't hesitate at all on that decision!  We left about 12:30, picked up the mail and went to 4 Corners for a load of pellets.  We took Pleasant Hill road on the way down and back, it was compact snow all the way.  I got a call from Barry but couldn't answer while driving.  We were forty minutes early at Kaiser so I called him and we had a nice visit.  My appointment went good and we headed to Arby's for dinner.  We unloaded the pellets as soon as we got home but I didn't lock the shop so I had to go out after the freezing rain started.

This is how it looked in front of the shop and it was slick!

It was the same as I came back to the house.

The house deck was a sheet of ice.  It never got over 28 degrees today and right now it is down to 26!

These KEEN ICETRAX are the only reason I was able to make it to the shop.  They have seven Tungsten Carbide spikes on each one.  They are fairly easy to slip on over my shoes and I never slipped once going to the shop.