First thing this morning, so far, the weather was fine. No precipitation yet, but still cold and windy. Went over to the place I was to load. Picking up three sections of an air conditioner that are going to a job site in Denton, Texas. That is just north of Dallas. There was a truck ahead of me loading up for a trip to St. Louis. Once he finished and got out of the way, I backed in. The contractor at the job site called and said not to load. They were shutting down the job site until Monday because of the storm. Fortunately, they had not started to load me yet. They were going to pay for me to wait. There are two other Daily trucks transporting these things down there too. Drove back to the Daily yard in OKC and dropped my trailer. Went to Wally World (Wal-Mart) and picked up a bit more food for the weekend. Made it back to the Daily yard, parked and plugged in to electricity before the weather started. Then took a nap. Woke up to the sound of the sleet bouncing off the truck.
Apparently this is a significant weather event for this area. The local TV stations are doing what our TV stations do when a hurricane approaches. Wall-to-wall weather coverage with reporters all over the place showing roads and airports and saying stupid things. By 4:30 pm local time roads were a mess. About 1/4 inch of sleet has fallen so far covering everything in ice and temperature in the 20's. Glad I'm parked. Here is my view. Lovely, isn't it?
The weather weasels are saying that we will get 4 to 5 inches of snow overnight. By noon tomorrow it should be sunny again.
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