Ice Storm!

[Jolt]

I might postpone that trail run. It might be covered with ice. We wanted to do a local hike today, but I am not sure what the conditions will be, even right by my house. Maybe I'll end up going to Lincoln Woods, just a bit further east.

I attempted it but didn't get very far because there were trees and branches down everywhere! It was more climbing over stuff than running and it was hard to even see the next trail marker at times because things were piled so high. The ice on the trail was the least of the problems (there were chunks of ice from the trees, but not solid sheets of ice).

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

We thought of going into the woods to take some pictures of the beautiful ice formations....but it's way too dangerous to go in the woods! Big tree limbs are still occasionally falling. you can hear them fall every time the wind kicks up.

The night of the storm, thursday night, we lay in bed with no power and no light. It was pitch black outside and ice and frozen rain was coming down heavily. This was so scary- you could hear big trees cracking and falling literally every 60 seconds or so, from various directions and at varying distances. Big trees crashing down....crack crack crack....all night sounding like rifles and guns being shot, echoing through the night. Every once in a while our giant pine near the house would drop another limb and we lay there afraid the whole 60 ft tree would crash down onto the house while we lay there. What seemed like flashes of lightning every 10 minutes were actually electric lines being torn down by the trees and flashing as they hit the ground, lighting up the sky. It was a very scary and surreal night.
The next morning when we went outside you could still hear trees coming down every 5 minutes or so from somewhere- all day long on Friday. Poor trees!

[Tuckervill]

That is quite frightening. Sounds like a war zone! And then when the transformers on the power poles blow up, yikes!

I try not to stay in my house when there is heavy ice. We have a huge oak tree about 20 yards from the house, and the neighbor had 2 on her lot between our houses.

Stay safe, ya'll!

Karen

[redrhodie]

Wow, I'm glad you're okay.

Note to self..you are completely unprepaired. Who gets the single serving of oatmeal which is about the only thing in the cupboard? Good thing there's cat food.

Off to the store.

[Iris616]

Many people are still with out power here in the Albany area. My SIL and her family are staying with us (still). My daycare provider has been told not to expect power before Weds., and both of those houses are in the city of Albany. I drove through eastern Rensselaer County yesterday, and it was a mess with trees and lines down.

[PamNY]

Lisa, I'm glad you are okay (and had running water). Ice storms are beautiful but scary IMO. Hope life gets back to normal in a timely fashion.

Pam

[Tuckervill]

We had a beautiful day yesterday. Seventy degrees, warm gusts from the south. Then about 4:30 I looked out and saw the line of dark gray clouds to the north. I walked out across the yard, thinking about how nice and warm it was, going to the workshop where my husband was so I could show him the sky. Suddenly, a COLD strong wind hit me from the north. It was liking opening a refrigerator door!

In one hour it had begun to rain and thunder. In two hours the temperature had dropped 30 degrees. Sometime in the night the rain turned over to sleet, the temperature dropped to 17, and now every surface is covered in ice pellets. The trees escaped much of a coating, I guess because the rain had time to drop off and dry in the wind before the sleet and ice pellets started up. But all the roads are slick and all the schools are closed. And we're stuck here with no milk in the fridge!

Karen