Day After the Storm

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As forecast, the temperature began to drop. I closed all curtains and blinds to keep the rooms as warm as possible. I could walk by a window and feel coldness coming inside. I’m glad I couldn’t shut down the front windows, because it snowed for hours. The sun was shining brightly! I’m not used to that. To me, it’s not a real snowstorm unless the sky is totally overcast. There was a bit of white only in places where the sun didn’t reach. It’s just as well it was not accumulating on sunlit paths and streets. Holly’s roof was holding snow, but Shawn and Bob’s was not.

The temperature continued a downward spiral and settled at 6 F (-14.44 C). I had things to do on the desktop computer. It lives in the coldest room of the house, so I pulled out my electric heater and found it to be a lovely companion. Perhaps I was relieved that the storm had not been intrusive. The evening dwindled away, and I was happy to climb in bed and sleep the night away.

It was too cold to walk the next morning, although it did warm up to just freezing a bit later. It was a day of meandering about the house, with nothing important accomplished. It seems that fizzled storm was a great disruption that accomplished nothing. Hopefully life will soon be back to normal.

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Published by Anne Mehrling

I'm a retiree who loves to write about life in the mountains of North Carolina.

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20 thoughts on “Day After the Storm”

    1. Thanks. It was too cold to go outside, so I went to the North Carolina online library looking for Rosamunde Pilcher’s books. There were only three, and there was a wait list for all of them. What a disappointment! I was ready to read immediately.

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  5. I have been seeing in the news and on social media how cold your part of the world is at the moment. If you can feel the cold coming through the windows like you said, it is cold. 6F or -14°C does sound really cold. Hope you are staying safe and warm, and that it gets back to normal and you can go out and about. Here in Australia where I am, it I the complete opposite with a heatwave – it’s summer and yesterday it got up to 110F or 45°C. Very hot!

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  6. Anne, I chuckled when I read of your meanderings about the house. I do the same before, during, and for a bit after a storm. I have recently begun to call it an AW day…meaning Aimless Wandering around the house. Stay warm.

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  7. I’m glad to hear you’re through the worst of it and you were prudent about walking. The worst of it passed through Northern Texas by Monday Midday. Yesterday after moving a good 3 inches of frozen rain (very different from snow) from my trusty old sedan I took it out to restock supplies from last week. I was glad to not have encountered any out-of-control vehicles in my 5-mile round trip. Saying, “We made it through unscathed” feels good, doesn’t it?

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  9. My house is so cold and I just had all-house insulation put in in August 2017. I don’t know why I bothered. The guy gold me the area where I sit in the kitchen was over the crawl space and would be toasty. Ha! I’ve been spending a lot of time reading in my bedroom or in the hallway where there is no draft. I was going to make something in the crockpot and thought the air at the wall near where I have to plug it in (the only plug on the countertop where I can plug things in and now I know my mom’s frustration) was ice cold. I thought it might crack the ceramic pot, so didn’t use it. I hope we have some moderation soon (not for two weeks they say though).

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  11. I think we are done with the freezing temperatures here but we had storm Chandra that got us under water for three days.
    Stay safe and warm Ann. You have all spring to go out walking 🥰

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