Have you ever heard of that? Wikipedia's explanation:
Freezing rain is a type of precipitation that begins as
snow at higher altitude, falling from a cloud towards earth, melts completely on its way down while passing through a layer of air above freezing temperature, and then encounters a layer below freezing at lower level to become
supercooled. This water will then freeze upon impact with any object it encounters.[1] The ice can accumulate to a thickness of several centimetres, called glaze ice. So we get LAYERS of ice on our car windshield, and driving is insane. The moment the "rain" hits the windshield, it solidifies and sticks. I've never seen this in Idaho or Utah. Driving in it is SO scary.
Yet we braved the weather on Thursday. It took over an hour to go 15 miles to see John Adams conducting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Completely worth it. It was phenomenal.
On Friday, Doug had a masterclass with John Adams. He critiqued one of Doug's pieces. John Adams is THE American classical composer right now. Doug was thrilled to have this opportunity. Adams was very complimentary in Doug's piece, and gave meaningful comments. I only wish Doug could take composition lessons from John Adams. That would be SO cool.
What a busy week. We're so thankful our wonderful friends the Olsens babysat for us! I felt like I was in college again. Learning is so incredible, especially now that I've lost so many brain cells. Now, back to getting the kids on schedules, cleaning the house, cooking..the regular stuff that doesn't require much thinking.
I borrowed these pictures from the Olsens. For a few days the world was ice. Sparkly, crystal clear ice.
A lot of trees fell over from the pressure. Click on this to see the detail!
Scraping the cars...ohhhh my. Took forever.
This was ice on the Olsen's windshield. Ours was that thick, too! I broke 2 scrapers trying to get that stuff off.
