The King of Icicles Is My Neighbor
January 28, 2004
I've been watching this giant bastard grow more and more everyday since the "Great Power Outage of 2003" as I'm calling it now. Look at that sucker! Its girth is probably eight inches at its girthiest. My guess is that it is somewhere between 5.5 and 6 feet in length. For those of you not from the snowy regions I call "Hell on Earth," that is one freakin' huge icicle! I'm hoping it reaches the ground and we have a full-fledged ice pillar. Right now its less than two feet from the ground.
His kingdom is on the back eve(?) of the 4-plex that I live in. In more than one occasion my inner five-year-old wanted to go break it off in its initial princely stages and use it as a giant ice light-sabre. But for some reason, I held back.
I became one of the Ice King Paparazzi, basking in His Icy Liege's radiant glow. Thus here's two more pictures for those of you who, like me, are starstruck by ice. I think I'll call him Larry.
P.S. Sorry for my lack of posting recently. My life has been drip, drip, dripping away like water down Larry in the afternoon. The only bright spot I have to report is my new goal, which I will explain in my next post.
Larry's pretty cool. If Larry actually reaches the status of 'pillar', please post pictures. I have no icicles on my house nor have I seen many icicles this year, because while you are getting pounded with snow in the northern half of the state, we haven't received very much. Just very very cold temperatures. There was a day that I heard of snow reported all over the state, and even snow in Las Vegas, but we didn't receive a flake. Weird, huh?
Posted by: Jill at January 29, 2004 10:50 AM
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