Early Thursday afternoon I was sitting at my computer working on a post for one of my blogs and I noticed that the snow storm that had been supposed to start Wednesday night had finally started.

The snow was coming down like it was making up for lost time. There was easily half a foot or more within 30 minutes.

It was still below freezing at the time – -1 Celsius (which is just below 32 F), but we’d been expecting freezing rain so I knew that it might warm up a little. Conditions outside would be pretty hazardous if we got freezing rain.

Then, at about 1:30 pm guess what I heard? Thunder? Yeah, it thundered on and off for about ten minutes. I didn’t see any lightning but there might have been some somewhere.

I had heard that we’d had thunder and lightning a few days ago too, but I’d missed that.

Considering that I live in the great white north it’s pretty strange to experience thunder in the winter time. Especially if there’s snow on the ground or even more surprisingly if it happens to be snowing when the thunder is heard.

That was strange enough, but worse was yet to happen.

I think it was around 5:30 pm when I realized that my internet connection was down. I’d just sent an email and as far as I know it got sent off ok, but all of a sudden I couldn’t reach websites I’d been trying to get to and my email program was just spinning and not collecting mail.

So I thought to myself … ok, it’ll probably be down for just a little while. I’ll turn on the TV and select whatever I’m going to record on the DVR.

Oh oh … Can’t do that either. The cable box came on, and so did the TV, but the television just has a blank screen. Well .. a black screen. That worried me because I thought maybe our DLP TV had failed again … but when I tried to change the channels I could see the channel info box come up on the TV so I knew it was working. It was just the cable that wasn’t.

I called the cable company and yes, the connections were down in my area. When I was speaking to them they were just sending a truck out to fix the problem so they didn’t know if it was weather related, a simple problem or if perhaps a car had crashed into their equipment. The latter would result in quite a delay in repairs. I was told it usually takes about four hours when they have to fix connections for an area, but depending upon whatever caused the problem I might not have had a connection for a long time.

I filled my time writing up a few posts in Notepad and reading a book. I’m so used to sitting at the computer and working on my sites during the day and often early evening that it felt really strange to not be able to do that.

I got my internet and cable TV connections sometime late in the evening. I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that both services don’t go out at the same time again!

Now if you’ve come here for PHOTO HUNTERS perhaps I’ll take a photo of the melting snow on the slushy streets later today. I think during heavy snow and ice storms they still do use some salt in the mix of what they put on your streets to melt the snow .. and that’s the only way I’m going to be able to get anything for the Salty theme on this blog today. LOL