December 28 - Dark Tidings


Up


very


early,


south


on


95


to


Florence


and


20,


southwest


to


285 and


Peachtree City,


paying a call on Carol and


family,


then northwest on 85 in howling rain and wind,


finally making it just over the


North Carolina border


once more.... Back to a fall-like 52 at home (tied for third-coldest of year, with January 1 and December 25, surpassed only by December 20's 50) -- 64 Roanoke Rapids, a whopping 80 in Florence, 72 Peachtree City, 73 Gastonia (NC, compared to the more coastal RR, go figure), with the temperature plummeting to a wintery 48 in Bette-and-Georgeland