Ice car

After I got the 5 inches of snow swept off of my car, this was what I found. That's solid ice where my wipers should be. Even the tire and wheel cover were ice-coated.
(click directly on images posted here, for a closer view)

This photo really doesn't portray what it actually looked like...it was really kinda cool....like a car made out of solid ice.

Here, you can see how thick the ice was, and now it had formed in layers.

We decided to chance going out today. The temperature rose to 30, and we thought it was probably at least a good idea to try to get our vehicles out of their parking spaces.

I found my car as you see above. The photos really don't do justice to just how fully encased in ice my car actually was. It was nearly in inch thick in some spots....it was really kinda cool and fun to see. Fun to chip the ice off, too, oddly.

We managed to get both vehicles clear of ice and snow, and then we took Dave's truck, and went out for a nice salad for lunch, and a trip to the grocery store.

I have been wanting to make fruit smoothies for breakfasts, and needed some additional varieties of frozen fruit to have on hand, and we had thought of a couple of other things to pick up.

We did our major grocery run before the storm, thank goodness, since we've been iced in here for 3 days now.

Getting out on the 3rd day, though, makes it not really count as 3 days.

I had some trouble getting my car out of it's space. The pavement under it was sheer ice. But as the temperature went up, and the sun came out a little, it melted just enough. Dave was able to move it, with the help of a neighbor, after we got back from our trip out.

The roads are clear, mostly. Better than they were after the 14 inch snow on Christmas eve. The parking lot here, though, is pretty much a god awful mess.

No plows, don't ya know.

Anyway....it was good to get out in the fresh air, see some other humans, and get an errand done.