Everyone is freaking out with the weather.
I woke up at fourish this morning and saw the sleet. It was pouring and even at this time most everything was covered in ice. By the time I was up and dressed at six-thirty, the sleet was diminishing but there was an inch or better of ice on the street, cars and just about everything else.
The first photo was taken about six in the morning.
This was taken just as it was starting to get light. It was around seven or so.
I suppose the reason I decided to blog about the
Dayton weather was because we haven't seen weather like this in awhile. That's what everyone says anyway. I sometimes think I can remember every snowstorm we've had. But, the ice storm is an oddity for most people. Especially younger than myself-and maybe older as many of them simply do not remember the last time they saw an ice storm.
We have had snow since the first week or so of December 2010. It was lovely. The temperatures stayed cold enough the entire month for the snow to stick around. Not just that, but it seemed we had snow just about every week which kept the ground covered and the landscapes beautiful.
It even snowed on Christmas Day! Then, we had a little bit of a warm up and gradually, the snow began to disappear. Then, just like December, the first week of January 2011, the snow reappeared. Unlike December, we had a heavy snow move in toward the end of January.
Just as everyone was digging out of that storm, the ice storm moved in this morning. I watched it from my fourth floor apartment window. From my window, the trees began to take on a shimmer. It didn't take long for each branch, limb and twig to become encased with ice. And the ground below, beautiful as it was, became slightly perilous.
Encased in ice, everything took on a different
look.
This is a close up of the tree outside my window. Notice the ice simply, hanging down? Then the wind began to blow...
Above, a C Close-up of one of the smaller limbs show ice, re-shaping in the wind.
And the wind continued. Early that evening it began again. The ice was bearing down on everything, and the wind began causing major problems. By about nine the lights here started flickering and while I was on Facebook, several friends found themselves without power during this storm.
From my apartment, I could hear the cracking and crashing of tree branches and limbs. I cringed each time I heard it. I finally turned my computer off around ten and went to bed. If the electricity went off, I wanted to be in bed. I made sure the birds were covered up really well before turning the lights off.
The following morning the count was 55,000 without electricity just in the Montgomery County area alone. I'm not completely sure, but I think the only people that were out when the light of day came up, were emergency workers. My apartment building, as far as I know, managed to survive the night. The lights and heat were working properly.
In the very first photo at the top, you can see a shot of the parking lot with trees in the lower left of the photo. The photo on the right shows one of its mangled branches. It was hanging on the ground in the drive way. This shows where someone picked it up and pushed it back in between the two trees.
This photo shows the tree just outside my bedroom window. Notice, there is no more ice on the trees.Most of the trees woke up to no ice after the wind during the night. Everything else was still covered in ice. The photo above makes the driveway and parking lot below it look like a frozen pond. Not quite that bad, but almost.
It's been awhile since I've seen an ice storm this bad. A long while, but it wasn't as bad as some I do remember. It was scary, believe me, but there have been worse.
Note: Today is February 10th. I started this post on the first of February. We've gotten back to some normalcy, although this morning when I got up, the temperature was -5. I am so looking forward to forty-something weather this weekend. Until later.
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