There was freezing rain last

There was freezing rain last night and this morning, the the trees and bushes were enclosed in cocoons of ice. It was a little surreal walking through the brisk air, watching the tree branches bending under their icy weight and hearing the ice entombed leaves in the trees creaking.

The road crew didn't sand the overpasses on Braker so the traffic was moving very slowly (and I got to test my ABS, which works very well). On the MoPac overpass, there was a sports car in the lane next to mine with its back wheels spinning on the ice. Traffic was piled up behind him as people tried to pass him by merging into the other non-moving lane. Nobody bothered to get out of their car to give him a shove - it wouldn't have taken much effort and would have sped up their progress as well. Had this been two months ago, people would have been more helpful. I guess it's back to normal here.