Ice storm 2009

Tuesday January 27 ...

We woke up to absolutely chaos.  The electricity was off and everything was icy! 

The last time we had a severe ice storm was in 2000. I didn't loose electricity during that storm and it was nothing compared to what we were in store for! Over the next couple days we experienced spotty electricity, loss of heat ( when we did have electricity), loss of phone service, and sadly loss of Internet!! 

Thankfully the apartment we live in has a gas stove and oven so that even when the electricity was off we were still able to cook hot food and keep the apartment rather warm! 

I did venture out a few times to take pictures and 

This is a picture of some of the limbs that broke off right beside our bedroom window!

This is a picture at the Asbell... The pine tree bent completely over.

I thought the ice was very pretty... It was absolutely beautiful!

You can actually see how much ice is on the branches.... 

These branches were actually rather thick!

All that Imanni did during her week long furlough was read the twilight series!

Kiannah wanted so bad to go outside, but once she was outside she didn't like it so much!

Asbell school driveway... Lots of cleaning to do after the storm!

Johnathan ventured out also.... More limbs that broke off trees littered the playground

I thought the Pine trees were absolutely beautiful !!