Ice storm photos from Merrimack

[unixronin]

These are the photos I took yesterday from the ice storm.  You can see how everything is coated with ice -- even the bark litter at the base of the Khoura dogwood tree seems to have been vacuum-wrapped.  The ice is up to a half-inch thick in places.  Unfortunately, I didn't get to the mailbox before the Silly Goose broke the ice off the top of it.

Images here are quarter-size (464x348 or vice versa); click on them to get a half-size (928x696) version.  Full-size (1856x1392) versions available by request.

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This morning, the sky is clear and the sun is out.  So I went out to get a few more, to catch the sun on the ice.  I didn't stay out long, because it's bitterly cold out there today.  The thermometer on our screen porch had made it up to 0°F by the time I got outside.  Walking in the back yard sounded like a chorus of brittle, crystalline chimes as the ice on the grass blades snapped.  It sounded as though someone had dropped a crystal chandelier.  cymrullewes reports that the washer/de-icer fluid in the Mercedes is frozen solid.

The good part of the cold is, the ice is less slippery than yesterday when the temperatures were hovering around freezing.  With luck, now that the sun is out, most of the ice will melt off the driveway today.

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Comments

Pretty...but

[fatcook.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful, but I'm very glad I don't have to deal with that. Give me 115 degrees any day of the week.

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[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Why is there a Pirate? I thought she'd still be in bed as her school is closed.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Because that one was taken yesterday, after they got home from school.

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[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

The Renaissance Man (unixronin) replied to your LiveJournal comment in which you said:
> Why is there a Pirate? I thought she'd still be in bed as her school is
> closed.

Their reply was:
Subject: Re: About img_0691
Where Pirate? I see no Pirate. (Not here, anyway.)

Heh. Guess you didn't read the subject line first.
I am without proper lunch because I forgot to grab anything. :-p
I also drove in with sufficient sun glare that I went out at lunch (to buy lunch but didn't and) looked for sunglasses at TJ Maxx. Not a single pair that I liked. But I bought a small french press and some ground coffee (bavarian dutch chocolate.)

Remind me when I get back to grab my sunglasses from your car and to put the box of soup cans in to my car.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Wow, they grew :)

[smandal.livejournal.com]

I remember we had a nice little icestorm in Virginia when I was in high school.

School shut down for a week and one morning my dad had to go out and thaw out the water line to our house with a heat gun (i.e., a hair dryer).