So far with this #storm, we have less than a debit card's worth of snow (see the graphic) and arctic cold.
The windchill has been dropping this morning, now at -12°F/-24.4°C, but our power is still on. We are on the patchy northwestern edge of what is hitting Texas and the south right now.
It is still snowing off and on, so our accumulation may end up being a Coke can's worth. 🤣
I had wanted snow rather than ice, and that's what we've got so far. Woot! But it's not the kind of snow that you can go out and have fun in mostly because it's so damned cold.
The #chickens are literally cooped up. I put fresh water on the heater pad in the bottom part of their run and corn and mealworms in a bowl in the nest boxes where the flat panel heater is and where they are hanging out. To do this, I put on my snowsuit for the first time in a couple of years. It really is a nice, warm snowsuit but dang, is it heavy.
I did not bother to leave the bottom coop panel open because they're not going to come out at all today, and it makes for a good wind block. They should be OK for another day or two unless I lose power, in which case I will suit up, grab them all individually, and set them up in the basement.
A couple of years back we had two weeks of Arctic cold and I kept them in the basement for around 12 days!
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