Tuesday’s predicted snowstorm, which triggered numerous announcements of cancellations the evening before, including Beacon’s monthly Zoning Board Meeting (rescheduled for next month), delivered as a steady fall of ice rain. Beacon City Schools announced their closure on Tuesday morning, and snowplows were out on the streets monitoring the situation.

The pelting ice has covered everything in, well, ice, making it extremely difficult to even leave one’s front porch and requiring immediate sprinkling of salt. In fact, you may want to carry salt with you everywhere you go today, if you decide to go outside. This Snow Day does not involve snow yet, so for kids at home, it will be an indoor day, as it is very cold. Simply taking the picture for this article required a five-minute warmup back inside the kitchen while eggs cooked on the stove. Temps are in the high 20s, low 30s.

Thankfully, Tuesday’s trash collection by Royal Carting has started. If you’re a put-the-trash-out-the-night-before kind of person, you’re really patting yourself on the back right now as you sip your morning coffee.

The next question is, can you even open your car door, or is it iced shut? Brett’s Hardware probably has a product to help with that.