Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
> Julia wrote:
>
> >We got hit by sleet/ice last night.
> [snip]
> >Then sometime between 1:30 and 2, Sammy tripped and hit his forehead on the
> >box his alphabet blocks live in, and it cut him. Deep. About half an inch
> >long.
> [snip]
> >(And we're going to have to try to get him to the doctor's office tomorrow
> >morning to get it checked out anyway, and given the freezing drizzle
> >advisory that we're under through 10PM, I don't know how easy *that's*
> >going
> >to be.)
>
> Eep! I hope everything turns out ok. I know forehead wounds tend to bleed
> more than just about any other kind, and that makes things particularly
> scary but also tends to help flush out pathogens.
>
> Is this kind of weather and temperature unusual in your part of Texas? We
> just had some snow up here in KC bad enough that most of the outlying school
> districts had a snowday yesterday, but that's typical for us this time of
> year. And it really wasn't very much snow, it was snow plus wind plus cold.
Let me put it this way: I think this time may have been worse than the
storm that hit in early 1989, but I'm not *positive*; and this is
*definitely* the worst icing I've seen since 1991. So a once-in-a-decade
event, at best.
It doesn't help, though, that we're out of the city now, and there are,
what, 8 houses on the street, so hardly anyone driving by to help melt the
stuff on the road. I think that if we could just make it to FM 685 safely
(almost 4 miles away), we'd be fine, but it's getting to FM 685 that would
be the problem. (If we made it to FM 685, then it would just be 685 to US
79 to IH-35 access road southbound for less than a mile, and then onto RM
620 and to the hospital in a jiffy, relatively speaking, as all *those*
roads would be in vaguely driveable shape, I believe.)
If we were still in the old, smaller house, we could probably make it to the
ER with a certain amount of nailbiting just fine.
Julia
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