Here's the promised pictures of probably the worst winter storm in the last decade, in this area. It wasn't snow, or wind, it was
freezing rain. This shit was crazy!
Sorry the pics are so big, don't have any photo-editing software
[spoiler=a sapling in my yard, last Tuesday. It'd already been raining most of the night, and the power went off around noon on Tues.]
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[spoiler=a water nozzle on the back porch that I was fascinated with.]
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[spoiler=a little clutch of grass in the back yard. The entire thing was covered, and thick enough to walk on w/o cracking it.]
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[spoiler=that nozzle again, about 6 hours later]
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[spoiler=one of those plastic wind catcher things who's hook finally snapped]
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So, sometime after dark the ice turned to light snow, and gave a light dust across all the ice. Trees had been cracking all day as they strained under the weight. Oaks, in particular, tend to just splinter once they finally go. Me and my girlfriend went walking around on Thursday (and Weds, but the light wasn't good for pictures), which was when the roads were fairly clear, but most everything else was still covered.
[spoiler=random shoe in a yard]
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[spoiler=neighbor's yard. check out the treeline in the background]
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[spoiler= a once proud oak tree]
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[spoiler=another broken tree]
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[spoiler=close up of the coating of ice, 2 days old.]
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The stuff was gone nearly as fast as it arrived. Two days after those last pictures, no snow or ice anywhere to be seen. Even most of the mud is dry. But there's still hundreds of crews out, clearing the devastation and fixing the power system.
