Ice on Snow -- Fun!

Oooo, something to look forward to this weekend -- NOT!  Here's the news from a recently posted Severe Weather Alert:

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING...SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SATURDAY MORNING ACROSS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES BY AFTERNOON.

THE PRECIPITATION IS THEN EXPECTED TO MIX WITH...THEN CHANGE TO SLEET BY LATE AFTERNOON AND THEN TO FREEZING RAIN BY EARLY EVENING FROM SOUTH TO NORTH.

A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF ICE COULD ACCUMULATE ON TOP OF THE SNOW BY LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. CURRENT INDICATIONS SHOW WIDESPREAD ACCUMULATIONS OF ICE TOTALING ONE QUARTER TO ONE THIRD OF AN INCH WILL FALL ON TOP OF THE SNOW... WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE.

TRAVEL CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE QUICKLY WITH THE ONSET OF THE ACCUMULATING SNOW...AND MAY BECOME NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE WITH THE FREEZING RAIN DURING THE EVENING.

ICE ACCUMULATIONS SUCH AS THESE MAY CAUSE CONSIDERABLE TREE AND POWER LINE DAMAGE WITH WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES. IN ADDITION...SOUTHEAST WINDS GUSTING TO 30 MPH WILL FURTHER STRESS ICE- LADEN STRUCTURES. ICE ACCUMULATIONS WOULD LIKELY BE HIGHEST AWAY FROM THE WARMER SHORES OF LAKE MICHIGAN. NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE POWER OUTAGES.

It's possibilities like this that make one wonder why just about everything we own for cooking or heating is powered by electricity?

*is thankful for a gas fireplace but prays there will be no power outages*