Milk, bread and toilet paper southern style

[CoyoteMagic]

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Sounds like everybody is getting scrambled eggs to eat!

 

[key west chick]

Blizzard, southern style!

 

[kburen]

LOL I love the chicken standing on the goat

 

[CrazyChickieMama]

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Sounds like everybody is getting scrambled eggs to eat!

Exactly!!!! Thankfully DH should(we'll see) be coming home in the morning with feed. If not, then it's a good thing I get at least 6 eggs a day!!

 

[maizey]

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automatic chicken foot warmers

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

The best one I have ever seen was after a hurricaine here in NC, the lady in front of me had 4 gallons of milk in her cart with a bunch of frozen items. She was talking to her hubby and made the comment "I hope we get power back on before all this goes bad". It was in the 90's that day. I was to busy picking my jaw up off the floor to make a comment.

Steve

 

[Catstar68]

The frozen rain/snow/sleet began an hour ago. It can't make up its mind what it wants to do out there.
I told everyone at work they can most likely count me out tomorrow - I'm up in Granville County and Durham is just a mess to get to from where I am when the roads are bad.
I'm thinking ice, more so than snow up here.
We have plenty of provisions, a full propane tank for the grill and a huge pile of firewood. And eggs. lots of eggs

 

[Tala]

We ended up with near 7" in town.
The roads in town were messy, but passable today. We opened up for pizza delivery at 2pm, and closed around 7 when it started re-freezing pretty bad.
I drove hubby's Explorer with auto 4wd, which was nice trying to climb up a few hills. Seems like a requirement for neighborhoods in my town is that the entrance/exit should come to a stop sign at the top of a steepish hill to get back on the main road. Fine coming in, but it's a piece of work if you have bad tires when it's simply raining, much less slushy ice mixture.....hence the new tires on my truck that I normally drive. I've practiced a lot in the mud, and you slide about the same on mud/water as you do on ice/water, however there's a LOT of southerners who don't have a clue. Fortunately for me, most of them slid off the roads yesterday

and today it was mostly decent drivers out there.

My boss lives out in the sticks though, he may not make it out in the morning

so I might get to sleep in a bit. We can hope, right?

ETA: I forgot to add, the snow caved in the tarped part of my chicken pen (PVC supports) pretty badly. Me and hubbs scraped a lot of it off so it wouldn't collapse, but I'll hafta stand it back up in a few days. The chickens in the pen of course had a somewhat clear non-snowy place to walk, but the free range roosters were content to walk on top of the fences and such, rather than on the snow. They did come down when I thawed the water and threw out some BOSS, but they were trying to stay off that white stuff as much as possible. My outside brooder chicks were warm under their lamp. Put a tarp over the run portion of their tractor, not so much to keep them out of the snow as to keep the wind out - it was blowing 15-20 from the east and their wind block was only on the north side. The lamp kept their water clear so they are doing fine. I go out and check to make sure the lamp is still on every few hours though, can't afford to have it fail on them in these temps! Southern chickens like snow about as much as southern humans. However, my dogs think it's a blast to run through

 

[CoyoteMagic]

freezing rain seems to be finishing up. Hill in front of house looks like it will be totally impassible in the am. Probably not until late afternoon at the earliest.

Hubby will be having another short check next week.

 

[GaNewChick]

We got about 3" of ice ... It's a mess ~ and will be several days before it's completely gone.