Ice Storm '08

Look what we woke up to this morning!  We could hear some snapping and crashing last night, but slept through the ice storm. This morning the trees are still covered in ice and you can still hear snapping and crashing from the upper limbs falling down.   You can see branches down all along our street and in nearly every yard.  In the center of the photo you can see that our grill was crushed.  The tree trunk to the right of the grill was uprooted and the top of the tree can be seen up close right outside our kitchen window....

Thankfully no windows were smashed.  We were without power last night so I got to bed at a decent time.  The kids are home from school today...Christina and Thomas are thrilled, Grace- not so much.  We'll have some fun and hope that we've seen the worst of the ice storm.

ADDENDUM:

Wayne took the following photos.  We were without power for several hours, so I'm just now able to add them here.  Pretty amazing.  We've never seen anything like this.  The sun is out now and everything is melting.  Icicles are showering down like rain.  Branches are still breaking and falling here and there.  We've got a fire in the fireplace and the kids are "cleaning the playroom."  We all cheered when the power came back on, let me tell you!  I need to melt chocolate to make my cake bites!

PS. Cheri, do you recognize Wayne's tan coat in one of these photos? It's the one John gave him ages ago...LOL!