The Rain Has Arrived

Well it's Friday and the weather guy did not disappoint me. The rain has arrived. Unfortunately the temperature while certainly higher than it's been all week is not the originally promised high of 5°. It's actually only 1°. Which is certainly better than the -20° it was yesterday evening but it's not nearly high enough to assist the rain in melting the snow.
Well, most of the snow. Anything near a street has already been turned to a nasty brown soup of snow, ice and dirty water. Slush. Yet another of the many joys of winter.
I guess I shouldn't complain. It's melting although not nearly as quickly as I'd like. The good news, depending on how you look at it is that the forecast is calling for heavy showers over night. Meaning that most of the snow will be gone tomorrow... replaced by flooded sidewalks, slushy roads and swampy back yards. Not exactly the most ideal situation but as long as the end result is a significant lack of snow, I'll be happy.
It's not going to last though. I noticed that the long range forecast is calling for clear skies until next Wednesday at which time we're going to have a storm of freezing rain and ice pellets.
Hoorah.
It's at this point that my hopes lean in to the possibility that the weather guy is smoking crack and we're actually due for another stint of unseasonable warmth. Hey I can dream can't I?
In the mean time I guess I can enjoy the slightly melty weather we're having. Besides the horrible mess it makes of the roads it does create some extremely interesting ice art.  Icicles.  Which while fun to look at for everyone else speaks of a heat loss problem for the home owner in question. A common issue with the older homes in the area. They're all so large that most owners have cut them up into apartments. They add mini kitchens and new entrances but do nothing about the sinking floors and ancient roofs. The end result is a really nice little apartment with lots of character on the inside and something that looks like the picture on the right on the outside.
My next door neighbors. I can only imagine the size of the icicles hanging on this place. I may go out and check later just to take some pictures. But then again that would require going out into the mess and I'd rather avoid that if I can. One of the few perks of being a hermit.