Terry and Jessica drove up to the Corning Glass Museum for a couple of hours today. The last time Jess was there was when she was about five or six years old. It was during one of our family tours of western New York State. They said the Museum was very empty what with it being a school day and all, but they had a good time anyway. Both said they really, really enjoyed the glass blowing demonstration because the furnaces were soooo warm!
I stayed home to contact the body shop about my Tundra. The new roof is installed and the painting is done. There was just one little problem. They hired a glass specialty company to pull the windshield and the back window on the cab and when they did, they damaged the windshield’s molding. The body shop was awaiting a replacement molding and hoped to get it this afternoon or tomorrow morning at the latest. Instead of getting my truck back today, I’ll have to wait until Thursday or Friday. If it’s Friday, I may have to wait even longer as there is a winter storm watch out for significant accumulation starting late Thursday night.
THE STORM WILL SPREAD A WINTRY MIX OF SNOW...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN INTO THE REGION STARTING LATER THURSDAY NIGHT...AND LASTING THROUGH MUCH OF FRIDAY.
BY THE FRIDAY MORNING COMMUTE...IT LOOKS LIKELY THAT A MIX OF MAINLY SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN WILL BE AFFECTING MOST OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...WITH SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS OF ICE POSSIBLE.
As Pepe LePew used to say, “le sigh!”
That’s a stinker of a forecast. I would need to take Terry’s Aveo to get the 4x4 Tundra, but I would need to load the Aveo into the bed of the Tundra to get it back up the hill. With luck, however, the ice storm could be over by the afternoon and we might be able to retrieve the Tundra before the shop closes.
I’ll be bringing more firewood into the garage tomorrow just to be on the safe side. We got lucky today, even with the strong winds, we never lost power. I was reminded of just how lucky when we went down to Mansfield for dinner at the China Buffet. (I get a jones for General Tsao’s chicken every now and again.) The CB is in a small strip mall that includes a Pizza Hut and in the lot were five huge utility trucks towing wood chippers. The crews were all having their dinner at the Pizza Hut, we saw them walk in when we arrived. They were obviously getting done with a long day of clearing trees. (That or they were getting ready for round two that begins Thursday night/Friday morning.)
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