Travelling to Mason City

In one of those classic examples of "Do as I say, not as I do," Linda and I set out on a cross country trip at the onset of what was predicted to be a potentially extremely dangerous ice storm. As you can see in the pictures, we did run into ice. We stopped about every fifteen miles to scrape the windshield and windows to be able to proceed. At the time, it didn't seem so bad. We didn't see anyone off the highway until we were exiting and that was the only one we saw. Traffic was lighter than normal but there were people out moving around, several faster than us.