Last year on this day, we had a tornado watch, which turned into a warning, complete with sirens going off, and us heading to our "tornado corner" downstairs.
This year? Well, yesterday as I was on the road from Des Moines to Cedar Rapids, I drove through torrential rains on I-80, and drove into freezing rain as I entered the Cedar Rapids area. Then it turned into snow. And today, we've been having gentle "snow globe" snow.
The trees, however, are still coated in ice from yesterday's freezing rain.
I had my daughter take a pic of some of the trees we see on our drive to school.
They look cool and they seem to have a "Sleepy Hollow" vibe, in my opinion, with the dark, wet trunks. (By the way, I enjoy the Johnny Depp "Sleepy Hollow" version from 1999).
Currently, I think it's about 30°F right now, with the wind chill in the 20s.
A couple more Instagram pics: one from yesterday during the freezing rain, and the other from this morning during the snow. . .
