My telephone showed the time in huge numbers, the date in a much smaller font, and the weather in tiny letters. It was the weather that caught and held my eyes. It said, “18° Broken Clouds”. Only the words on my phone struck me. If the clouds are broken, who broke them and will they fall on me? Being a child of the 20th Century, I know there is much more to “sky” than clouds and an expanse of blue. There is space out there, lots of space! There is debris in space that is falling toward us. I’m happy to report that I glanced at an article that said we now have the capability of intercepting things falling out of the sky. Whew! I’m not going to worry about broken clouds anymore.
Broken Clouds
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Mehrling Muse 
That is funny. My daughter is very literal and I can imagine her thinking the same thing.
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What a strange term, broken clouds!!!
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I think I usually hear about scattered clouds.
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🤣 that makes way more sense.
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I’ve never heard that phrase before. All kinds of crazy words coming up now – “frost quakes” comes up occasionally in this bitter cold weather. Little explosions underground and now “trees exploding” because their sap freezes and the inside of the tree expands and pushes the bark off.
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Weird!!
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I saw a photo of an exploded tree in Nashville. Their storm was much worse than mine.
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Our Detroit area lineman went down South, 60 of them, to help out and likely will be in Tennessee under this reciprocal agreement they have. When we had the bad ice storm in 2023, our City and surrounding areas had linemen from Tennessee. Some residents felt sorry for them as they weren’t used to the extreme cold and gave them hot drinks and baked goods and even snacks as they were so happy to see them pull up in their trucks.
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My goodness but you are going to have some of our arctic air. Any snow yet?
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We had about 20 hours of snow. I can’t tell how deep it is, maybe 8 inches. I hope someone in the neighborhood will measure it.
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WOW! I bet it’s deep!!!
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The snow had tiny flakes, so it didn’t accumulate as it usually does.
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👍👍That’s good!!
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I have been wondering. Weather.gov might have the amount of snow. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, a piece of printer paper is about 8″ X 11″. Try seeing if you roll it into a tube, if it disappears at the 8″ side, you have more snow. A ruler or yardstick will also do the trick. Stay warm. Are there plows to clear the roads?
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We didn’t normally have a plow in this neighborhood. There will be plows on I-40 and on State roads.
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Hope temperatures melt it then.
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The cloud on the computer maybe?
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Ha ha!!
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An attempt at humor.
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Hahaha! Cute take on the expression “broken clouds”. Reminds me of Chicken Little and “The Sky is Falling”.
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I was thinking of that, too.
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😁😁
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Anne, I like where your mind took you here! I think there is a story here …
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