Ice storm 07

We had some freezing rain come throught Monday night (Dec 11) it did alot of damage in Clay county. There have been lots of trees broke off and power outages. Brian and I were pretty well prepared: we have a generator to run our furnace so we can stay warm, we're on rural water so we still have running water, and a propane water heater so we have hot water. We just can't cook or warm up any food. In fact, Brian told me not to open the refrigerator while the power is off so the food won't spoil as fast. Luckily, we only lost power for about ten hours, we were pretty fortunate many families have been without power since late Monday night and are still without electricity. We let a friend use our generator since we haven't really needed it except that one day. Its amusing how even though I know the electricity is off when I walk into a room I flip the light switch. DUH!!


Things we finally starting to melt off a little on Thursday but we had a snow storm come through Friday night. It dropped about 7in of powdery snow and of course the wind was blowing so the roads are drifted. Our road maintenance man usually leaves us till last, so it may slow us down if we need to go to town. Alot of people where saying we were suppose to have a "dry/warm" winter. Well they were wrong. Bunch of idiots, they look at the caterpillars in the fall and see how thick the wool is and try to gauge the weather, or something as equally asinine.





The ice was beautiful and I got a few good picts.

This is the electric fence.

The blue spruces that line the drive. They seemed to hold up better to the ice than the other trees. We lost quite a few fruit trees in the orchard and an elm and cottonwood in the front yard.

Brian thought there was at least an inch of ice.

While I was out taking pictures I could hear trees breaking off all around in the tree rows. It was an eerie moment. There was no wind and the ice insulates and muffles all the outside noises. So, in the distance, I could hear cracking and then a whoosh as the branches fell.