Freezing Rain in January?

At about noon today freezing rain started coming down from the sky, and that means two things. You can’t walk without sliding around, and you have to drive really carefully..

Within minutes the streets turned into glass, and cars and trees were dressed with a nice layer of ice. What no one expected was that the power would go out in the plant.

I was working on the floor, when all the sudden the power went out and the emergency lights came on. People just sat around waiting for the lights to come back on, but after 15 minutes, people started giving up hope.

Some workers were sent home, others stuck around. I waited for a bit, and ended up going home 20 minutes early. The bad news, is that we have to make up for lost production time, and that could mean some weekend hours. Yikes!

I took the pictures in this post, just before leaving home to give you an idea of the situation.