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Today was the first day that we were able to drive to town after one long week of heavy snow storm. Here are some of the pictures that I took along the way.
Above is highway 41
Cherry berries all covered in ice
Above is a scene at the 1st ave. post office. We didn't have mail service for 4 days!
Another part of the post office parking lot.I was busy doing 2 rounds of laundry this morning and making breakfast for Ramzi when I realized that we have no water in the house! I thought it would come back soon, but it's already 3.40 pm and still no water! I called up our next door neighbor and asked him if he was having the same problem, and he told me he just got done talking to the Utility People and they've told him the water main at Conti Dr. broke, and they are trying to fix the problem. Conti Dr. is just 2 minutes walk from our house and I told Ramzi to bundle up and we should investigate their progress. Here are the pictures that I took . Talking about progress, I saw only 2 person working and hardly see any progress at all! It looks like we are going to do most of our 'business' (bathroom needs & Cooking) elsewhere later tonight. Not sure if my dear husband is going to be happy about driving in the extremely hazardous road condition.
It will be Ramzi's 3rd day away from school tomorrow because of the winter storm, and he is enjoying it to the fullest. He dragged me out in the cold because he wants to roll around in the snow. We have been in and out of the house, changing his pants and his mittens (gloves) because it was wet. He also had to change his socks twice and on the 2nd round, I told him to wear one of my older winter boots, it was big, but it keeps his feet warm. Here are some pictures taken awhile ago.
On this 1st caption, I told him to pose for me before messing himself up in the snow.
A picture showing how cold it was. (Entrance towards our front door)
My apple tree is now an icicle tree!
It's kinda pretty, a tree with no leaves but all ice
Ramzi using a piece of icy twig as a gun!
Our next door neighbor was having a hard time trying to drive her car into her driveway, and in the end, she decide to leave it by the road side.
Here is our barn in the backyard. I wanted to get the shovel but the door just won't open.
By Gavin Lesnick (Contact)Originally published 11:28 a.m., January 24, 2009Updated 07:35 a.m., January 26, 2009
"The National Weather Service is now projecting snow and sleet accumulations of at least 4 inches and up to 10 inches in Evansville over the next two days.
Three to 7 inches are expected to fall with the first wave of the system, which will hit the Tri-State this evening. A winter storm warning goes into effect at 6 p.m.
A second wave Tuesday will produce 1 to 3 inches, forecasters said.
Snow and sleet will be the primary form of precipitation north of the Ohio River, though forecasters say a mixture of freezing rain and sleet will be more likely south of the river.
Some locations in Kentucky could see half an inch to an inch of ice, which the weather service said could cause significant damage to power lines and trees and make driving hazardous."
Our little guy, Ramzi would be the happiest person when weather affects his school schedule. He have been praying for this to happen..and may get his wishes soon!
It's Thursday morning and I had just got done sending my son to school. The temperature out there was 2 degrees F and the wind chill was -9 ! It is supposed to be the coldest in 4 years.... brrrr... By Friday morning, schoolchildren boarding buses could face a temperature near zero degrees. The cold air is typical this time of year, and the lows are far from the records for today and Friday of minus 7 and minus 17 degrees.
Although I had the heater on full blast in the car, my toes were numbed and I had to adjust the heater to blow on full blast below the dashboard. It was terribly dangerous to drive with my numbed toes. On the way to my son's school there were about 3 big lakes or ponds, and all of them were solid ice and white.
Anyway, hopefully we will have a better 'deal' next week..hahaha.
Over the weekend, I was having mild problem with my gums. As the area of the swelling increases, the ache becomes more troublesome. My pain radiates to the ear, jaws and cheek and gives me a one-sided blinding headache.
Yesterday, I called my dentist, Dr. Schymik and he was at the east side office and not the north side office that I usually go to. I was told to be at the east side office by 11 am. I found the office and waited in the lobby for about 20 minutes before they called me in. They did an x-ray on the particular tooth and the girl told me it's quite inflammed. After awhile, Dr. Schymik came and looked at the x-ray and he suggested root-canal, seconded by another Doctor there. He told me he needs to refer me to an endodontic specialist. (A root canal is the commonly used term for the main canals within the dentin of the tooth. These are part of the natural cavity within a tooth that consists of the dental pulp chamber, the main canals, and sometimes more intricate anatomical branches that may connect the root canals to each other or to the root surface of the tooth. Root canals are filled with a highly vascularized, loose connective tissue, the dental pulp. This sometimes becomes infected and inflamed, generally due to caries or tooth fractures that allow microorganisms, mostly bacteria from the oral flora or their byproducts, access to the pulp chamber or the root canals; the infected tissue is removed by a surgical intervention known as endodontic therapy and commonly called a root canal).
Meanwhile, he told me he will give me some antibiotics for a week and I will have to contact the specialist as soon as the swellling goes down. I have taken the antibiotics (penicillin gv 500), every 4 hours and the pain never did go away and I decided to try ibuprofen which is not strong enough and lastly I tried tylenol which is a little bit better but still after the medication wore off, the pain is back! Woke up this morning with my face looking out of shape, thinking to myself, hmmm.. I am looking like Mrs Puff in Spongebob!
That's the Utility Truck parked at Conti Dr.
This is where the water main broke, and they've dug the area
There's nothing much we can do, except wait.
Here's our back porch. See the 'icy stalagmites' hanging down from the roof top. I used to have 3 bells hanging...now it's only two!