Taps work.
Driveway passable.
Schools maybe opening tomorrow.
Just for a little while, before the next cold phrase…. In tne next week.
Meanwhile, back home, bushfires rage. Chaplaincy teams on standby. if I were back home, I know what I would be doing….
Ohio, USA.
Victoria, Australia.
It reached -1.c today. Positively warm, for a change.
Chesterhill, Ohio
-17.c
Can you see the dog tracks on the pond?
We already knew it would be difficult.
My ear ache. Two planes, tight connections.
The worst winter…. That my sister has ever experienced.
Anna’s four wheel drive travel plan to pick me up from the bus fell through, due to family illness.
Multiple plane delays due to weather.
i left the hotel at 6am. Indeed, delayed lights. Long waits between (nice food though). Got to Columbus Ohio at 2pm.
Bus to Athens, and in by 5.30 pm
Adrienne picked me up, and we drove off in the dark. Main roads were fine. Country roads were not. Not at all. Iced over.
We went through to a local farmer. He loaded me, my case, and our bags of groceries in his beaten-up 4 wheel drive, and went our to our land. The long driveway up the hill was terrifying. Believe me in this. Adrienne parked her sedan down at the road. She can’t drive up. My man went down and got her in his car. That is where her car was this morning…. She walked down the hill, to use it.
Interesting note…. Farmer and family spoke with a strong Appalachian accent… Easy to recognise now.
So, here we are, in tne farmhouse.. Essentially snowed in. Ordinary sedan can’t reach us. Emil, and his boat, and the 4 wheel drive are off , in Florida, sailing. Car parked at farm gate.
This morning at 9am…. -27.c.
i am safe and warm. Many aren’t, I know. My ear is ok. Loads of drugs help.
As Afrienne says, this is the worst winter she has known.
it is supposed to reach -11.c today.
Cold what?
From the boat cruise in the snowy fog
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