Frozen!

That pretty well sums everything up.  FROZEN!  The yard is a solid sheet of ice.  I ventured out to shoot some photos....then my feet went out from under me and I experienced being airborne for a split second.  Then I landed....smack on my bum.  At least I didn't land on my head....and I saved the camera!  So I did the only sensible thing.  I brushed off and proceeded to slide around the yard snapping some pics.

Later we heard someone gunning their vehicle and spinning their wheels only to find the mailman had gotten stuck.  The neighbors pitched in and got him going.  Then I looked down the street and saw the Fox59 news van.  Apparently one of our neighbors had fallen down in the backyard and had slid down into the drainage ditch that runs behind the houses.  She couldn't get back up and out of the ditch and they had to call 911.  Fortunately she's OK.....just wet and cold.