I woke up at a quarter to six this morning to find that Mother Nature was not going to be cooperative today. Our power was out, everything was coated in a thick casing of ice and we lost a few huge limbs from a tree in the front yard. At that point I knew I probably had to scrap my plans of fishing in Central Pennsylvania today. It was a defeating feeling. We got the power back at about 7:30, I thought if the roads and weather radar look OK, I could still go and would have only lost a couple of hours. It might not be ideal, but I may be able to salvage the trip.
It was just not meant to be. According to the Departments of Transportation for both Ohio and Pennsylvania, the highways from here to there are covered with snow and ice. To compound the problems, it is currently snowing over most of the route there and in State College as I write this. It’s not often I scrap plans for a fishing trip because of weather, but sometimes it happens because of safety concerns. I will brave the weather when it is unpleasant, but still safe. Driving through the mountains in this kind of weather is not a good idea. Sadly, I must yield to safety. Here I am wishing I was fishing and making plans to reschedule this trip. I will go… I will.
This was going to be the one day I got to fish, the last day I got to fish, until Spring break. I will have to move some stuff around to reschedule, but I will make it work somehow.
Today, I am one unhappy angler. There is nothing more disappointing then the task of unpacking the car when a trip has been canceled.
Ice all over everything.
Trees and power lines just can't take the weight from all that ice.
Everything is frozen rock solid.
