More Precipitation Coats The Town

By Kendra Bobowick

Once upon a time there was a tiny, tiny chicken named Chicken Little. One day Chicken Little was scratching in the garden when something fell on her head.

“Oh,” cried Chicken Little, “the sky is falling…”

—“The Sky Is Falling,” a fable.

Again this week precipitation piled up on the more than two feet of snow already covering the ground due to January storms. With just a few inches of new, wet snow accumulated by Tuesday morning, January 18, forecasts came true with a wintry mix that had turned to a drizzle and light rain by afternoon. Tree limbs coated in ice glistened and walkways and front stoops grew slick under sheets of ice.

As traffic moved over slushy streets, many people enjoyed a day away from work or school, including Central Connecticut University students Katie Pessin and Taylor Truchsess. Walking from the C.H. Booth Library to the General Store on Main Street, the friends added splashed of color to the drab day.

The girls hunched beneath pale blue and darker blue umbrellas, keeping their heads dry as they left soggy footprints on the sidewalk. “The library is a sheet of ice,” Katie warned.

Drops of rain trickled down the length of icicles formed along eaves and rooflines across town, formed a crust on piled snow, and froze in a layer across windshields.