On Ice
My home region of the US is no stranger to odd weather patterns, but sometimes things go above and beyond the norm.
Binghamton, NY was basically shut down yesterday because the entire city was covered in ice. That's right, ice. Not snow. Not hail. Not sleet. But ice. I'm not entirely sure how it got there, but a particularly nasty case of freezing rain may have been the culprit. My mom's (
kyle_webb's) place of employment -- 5 minutes across town -- was closed as a result.
She sent me some pictures, and although they are low-quality (one was a cell phone cam pic, and the others were taken while it was getting dark, which both makes it hard to see details and made the camera more blur-prone) and surely pale by comparison to witnessing the spectacle firsthand, you can get some sense of what the city looked like today.
(Click on thumbnails for full-size images.)
Although there may be some residual snow on the ground in these pictures, most of what you see is ice. We typically don't get a whole lot of snow anyway -- nothing like the snow belt a couple hours north that gets dumped on every winter by Lake Ontario. It just comes and goes all winter long. And every once in a while, like this past day, things get a little more interesting.
There certainly was no need to visit one of our favorite stores on this occasion.
Watch your step...
Binghamton, NY was basically shut down yesterday because the entire city was covered in ice. That's right, ice. Not snow. Not hail. Not sleet. But ice. I'm not entirely sure how it got there, but a particularly nasty case of freezing rain may have been the culprit. My mom's (
kyle_webb's) place of employment -- 5 minutes across town -- was closed as a result.She sent me some pictures, and although they are low-quality (one was a cell phone cam pic, and the others were taken while it was getting dark, which both makes it hard to see details and made the camera more blur-prone) and surely pale by comparison to witnessing the spectacle firsthand, you can get some sense of what the city looked like today.
Although there may be some residual snow on the ground in these pictures, most of what you see is ice. We typically don't get a whole lot of snow anyway -- nothing like the snow belt a couple hours north that gets dumped on every winter by Lake Ontario. It just comes and goes all winter long. And every once in a while, like this past day, things get a little more interesting.
There certainly was no need to visit one of our favorite stores on this occasion.
Watch your step...
