This year has been a strange one… weather-wise. We had a torrid summer which just refused to let go. Just a few days ago, during the first week of December, temperatures here were as high as 86 F (30 C). I had never experienced such a long summer in my four years at Bryan-College Station. We had even taken to joking that Texas has officially been handed over to the Australians.
And then, this week, winter kicked in with a bang! Last night, College Station froze over. The thermometer crashed to 25 F (~ -4 C) and to add to the fun, it was raining. The result?? Sheets of ice – on the roads, on the stairs… everywhere. When I got up this morning and looked out the window, I see that my car is covered with a layer of ice… with icicles hanging down the bottom. I come out of my room and look towards the balcony. More icicles!! This was again a new experience for me in B-CS. Talk about extremes!
People were slipping on the roads and stairs … falling… hurting. All because they were unaccustomed to this. The trees and plants had a coating of ice on them that crinkled whenever they swayed in the wind.
And then, when the sun started to peek out a bit, the ice began to melt and slide off the roofs and plants. The sound that made was something else again. “A continuous sliding, tinkling sound” doesn’t do it justice but those are the only words I can think of that even come close.
While I did take some pictures of a frozen B-CS, it’ll be a while before I can put them up here. I am yet to transition from a film SLR camera to a digital one. As of now, I have to get the film processed and the photos printed. I promise that I’ll put them up ASAP.
Hasta mañana.
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