Road, field, and sky through windshield at 4 p.m. CT Tuesday.
Note: That IS NOT a hillside back there behind the tree line. That’s black sky.
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It didn’t seem to matter that the western hemisphere’s tallest cross sits just a few miles from here.
Frozen hell blew into town late Tuesday afternoon and quickly caught the area in its icy grip. Winds gusted to 50 mph and weather forecasters issued tornado watches. Between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m., the temperature dropped from 51 degrees to 28 degrees Fahrenheit. When a customer and I climbed into his truck to head back to another location, he whipped out a telescoping ice scraper that would have made Tim Allen proud. Against the wind, his truck never relaxed enough to settle into overdrive.
By 6:15, the mercury dipped to 18 while thunder clapped and sleet bounced off the truck. The wind still blew.

