Woke up to this view of the backyard. "Look how pretty it is from inside the house where it's not fifteen degrees! I love ice storms!"
None of these branches are ordinarily curved like this; most of them broke off over the next few days from the weight of the ice.
My new favorite word, accretion: "Growth of precipitation particles by collision of ice crystals with supercooled liquid droplets which freeze on impact." Meteorologists use it to describe the buildup of ice on objects, i.e. "we have a half inch of accretion on branches and power lines."
The accretion on my truck prevented me from opening the doors for two days.
Hash Brown, trying to keep warm. It was forty degrees inside our house with a fire going, fifteen to twenty degrees outside. 
Hey, thanks Garmin, not exactly the 7-11 I was expecting, but the gas is as good as any, even though it comes out of a pump from 1962 that takes forty-five minutes to deliver ten gallons.
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We had an ice storm the night of New Year's 2008, so when I stumbled out of my friend's house the next day, very tired and very hung-over, I found that all the doors on my car were frozen shut...rarely in my life have I ever been more frustrated/pissed.
You've been without power for 5 days!? Who's supposed to be in charge around there?
We got power back about a week ago, I've just been busy and hadn't taken the time to put up this post. But yeah, we didn't have power for five days. Some people around here STILL don't have power. Five days was fun, like an adventure -- camping in the living room. But after two or three weeks, I imagine it would get old.
that is wild my friend, thanks for the pics.
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