Searching for the great warm....

We left home in Central Illinois at 17 degrees F heading south through Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama.  Five hours into our journey it looked like this:

and just kept getting worse:

and worse:

and worse:

and then a little worse:

and then a little freezing rain:

and finally some dry:

We spent night one in Athens, Alabama and had to pry Carl's hands from the steering wheel.