If you were reading this blog last week, you know that I was keeping an eye on the weather. If you read this blog on a regular basis, you know that the weather is never far from my consciousness. Last week, there was some possibility of a winter storm during the upcoming holiday week-end, which would have impacted my ability to travel to Bristol, Tennessee to preach and preside at Faith Lutheran.
In fact, the winter storm came, but it tracked east. As we drove to Bristol, I kept an eye on the radar (by way of my phone app), and snow was just a few miles away. It had already snowed at the higher elevations, but the roads seemed fine.
I also kept my eye on the radar because we planned to go to a different part of east Tennessee, for an overnight visit to my spouse's father and stepmother. We weren't able to see them during the holidays because of my sudden need for melanoma removal surgery. We knew that it hadn't snowed at their house. But what about the mountains in between us?
On the way down, we didn't see much. On our way home yesterday, we saw snow and ice in the landscape and secondary roads around Bryson City, but the highway was clear.
I'm glad we went. We had a great visit, full of conversation and food and many hands of the card game Euchre (I'm never sure how to spell the name of that game). I'm glad that we made the effort and that the weather/roads were better than some of the forecasting predicted.
And now, here we are, at the beginning of another week, and the weather questions are the same. We know that a storm system will be in the southeastern states over this coming week-end. Where will it track? Will we get ice or snow or rain or a mix of all of them or nothing?
Once again, I won't write my sermon early. This week, even more than last week, it looks like we've got a very good chance of cancelling church.
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