Ice, Ice. go away. far away.

Remember that snow I asked for?

Well the snow God's decided to throw me for a loop and give me an ICE STORM instead.

The radar pictured above was Ohio, yesterday afternoon. All of the rain. FROZE.

It was very deceiving, I must say it looked like innocent rain coming down... but instead the minute it hit the ground, felt a gust of wind, it froze. in. one. big. sheet.

Every road in the city of Columbus, frozen.

Since I'm so used to being in Tennessee, I might have underestimated the damage that completely frozen lawns, driveways, streets, interstates, trees, and sidewalks can do.

I ventured out at the very beginning of the storm to take my friend to meet her ride to Cleveland (Ohio, that is).

I should have realized that the creeping traffic, going 30 MPH on the highway wasn't doing it for no apparent reason. After a drive that should have taken 20 minutes taking 1 hour and 15 minutes, I decided that I should go a different way home, due to all of the traffic, only to find myself lost.

Lost in the one part of town that I don't know. The one part of town that happens not to be the safest.

After turning down a few roads, in which I only vaguely recognized the road names of, I found myself somewhere that was familiar. Just when I thought that I was in the clear.

My car happened to spin out, only to be stopped when I hit the curb... I was completely spun around, facing the wrong direction and the car just happened to stop about 6 inches away from me slamming into a telephone poll.

I was so shaken up, I didn't know what to do, so I put my car in reverse and started to drive home. I probably didn't get up past 25 MPH the whole way home, which took about 45 minutes.

Close call, I'd say.

WBNS 10TV, CBS affiliate in Columbus reported that the Columbus Police Department received about 60 incident reports yesterday, within an hour, 4 p.m.-5 p.m. Read the entire story, here.