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

[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).