A sideways glance through foggy scope.
Listening to the news last Friday, one would have never guessed that it would work out like it did. Just to the North of where I live (Branson, MO) the ice was thick!
My wife travels for her job and was to fly into Springfield, MO Saturday. Needless to say, we were very interested in how the weather would develop. According to the local meteorologists, the ice storm was coming and it was to be a big one!
I personally had a hard time reconciling the forecast because it called for ice and dangerous travel conditions while at the same time predicting temperatures right around 30 degrees or so. Obviously I didn’t want to take the chance of getting out in the weather and being stranded so I stayed in.
I was extremely concerned, however, because my wife would still be traveling through the storm, landing in Springfield and then driving about 44 miles before she would be safe.
Saturday morning I waited and watched the rain fall nearly continuously without ever experiencing ice. In fact, the whole day was that way. Just North in Springfield, however, it was freezing and building up quickly.
To make a long story short, Springfield got buried and Branson got hardly anything. Springfield got so much ice, in fact, it took my wife literally an hour to get into her car. It was fully encased in ice.
In the end though, she made it home we didn’t get iced in and everything went fine.
I don’t ever remember seeing weather that different in two spots that close together. What a weekend!
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