Winter has struck Winston-Salem again, but not with the wallop that was promised by the dominant forecasts leading up to the weekend. As late as Wednesday, the National Weather Service was warning that Winston-Salem was likely to receive a 12-inch dump of snow from Thursday night through Saturday afternoon.
The Roediger House regulars were invited to come here to shelter, and given the threat of some ice with this storm, I made sure the fire was laid and that plenty of wood was on hand to keep it going:
Instead of mostly snow, we got almost all sleet. Mind you, there was a small accumulation of snow overnight Thursday, and then occasionally a bit of freezing rain mixed in, but for hours and hours Friday all that came down was sleet.
I'll definitely take that over freezing rain and icing. Unlike friends to the south and east, we had no problems with power outages, lines down, or trees snapped. The snow that was expected was supposed to be heavy and wet, so we didn't even have to contend with that.
This time around, I was responsible enough to make sure the feeders were full and ready for my sweet birds. They were demonstrably glad, I'd say.
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