This is the winter that just won't quit. In the last 30 days, we have had a blizzard, a record-breaking nor'easter, an ice storm, a storm that just dropped (only) 6 inches of snow, and brutally cold temperatures. And there's still a week to go in January and two more months of winter! Of all the weather we have had lately, the ice storm on Tuesday was the toughest. Because of where we live, we rarely see the worst part of storms - almost every weather map draws a dividing line right through our town, with the bad weather happening above or below us. This time, the tables really turned and we seemed to be at the epi-center. We lost power several times throughout the afternoon, as power lines came down and transformers caught on fire all over town. Our trees were dripping with ice and bent to the ground. We were lucky - the house never got too cold and we didn't lose power through the night like so many houses around us. Now that we made it through this storm, we are bracing for the cold this weekend (over the next few days, temperatures are not expected to get much above zero, which is as cold as it's been around here since before we moved to Connecticut) and the next round of storms - two more are expected this week. It's a good thing we love winter so much!
Just some of the icicles around the house.
The layer of ice starts to cover the two feet of snow in the backyard.
Not only is there ice covering the branches, but you can see the ice (not rain) falling in the background.
You don't need to be the child of a power company guy (Lee) or a telephone company guy (me) to realize that a power outage is in your future.
Today, the icicles are pretty and delicate, but razor sharp.
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