Aftermath

During the day, it continues to rain; then at night the temperature drops and ice starts to form.  There has been so much rain that water is accumulating on some roadways.  Most parking lots are a messy amalgam of slush, ice, and puddles the size of small ponds:

The Fairbanks North Borough superintendent finally decided to close all the schools late yesterday morning, after 5 school buses slid off the road and got stuck in ditches.  Apparently the children of Fairbanks haven't missed a school day since 2003 when there was a massive ice storm.  

The clinic is still open for acute appointments.  Who is risking life & limb to seek medical treatment in such hazardous driving conditions?  A mother bringing her 2-1/2 yr-old daughter in for vaccinations & a well child check that was due at 18 months.  A 19-yr-old woman with an acne break out, 3 weeks away from her wedding.  A 27-year-old woman who wants her IUD removed "because my husband says he can feel the IUD" with his ultra-sensitive penis during intercourse "and the IUD strings are poking inside his pee hole".  Don't get me started on how this is utterly physically impossible because the IUD is in the uterus and the penis can't go through the cervix into the uterus, and how even a board-certified urologist would have trouble getting the soft paragard IUD strings to thread through the penile urethra.