Mama Kat Thursday: Icy
The Mama Kat blog writing prompt I chose today is to share a blog post inspired by the word, "Icy." I grew up in Indiana where long, graceful icicles were a common sight along the edges of our roof during winter. I saw a news story on TV recently about something that happened to a foolish group of people in Minnesota standing at the base of the frozen Minnehaha Waterfalls in Minneapolis, looking up and admiring the giant frozen waterfall "icicles" when a big chunk suddenly broke off and fell on right on them . A Park Ranger pointed out that these people ignored all the warning signs not to go down there. I said to Hubby, " You know, my Mom taught me to know better then stand under icicles." She taught me that because, as a general rule, hanging ice is heavy, sometimes sharp and can do you great harm if it falls on the uninformed. However, here in Northwest Florida, ice is a much rarer sight. Except in January 2014, when temps dropped to -...