I found the source of that explosion after I dropped you off. One half of a big forked tree, which came down right between the resident's two cars. It was completely cleaned up by the time I got home this evening. Remember the one with the treehouse in the front yard? The treehouse is still there, sitting on the ground where the tree used to be, but no tree.
I worked at the Red Cross for a couple of weeks during the 1998 ice storm that hit here. Doing volunteer intake and triage, our first questions were: 1) Do you know how to use a chain-saw? 2) Do you know how to milk a cow? 3) Do you have a four-wheel drive vehicle? Doctors and nurses were noted but were not a priority.
Yeah, I remember that storm. This was a much more garden-variety ice storm, we get a few of 'em every winter. Not the sort of ice storm that creates massive emergencies and calls out the Red Cross.
I took the picture from my driveway this morning because it was so amazingly pretty. We don't always get the proper amount of sunshine after an ice storm, to light things up like that. You have to have bright sun in the morning or evening when the sun is at a low angle, fairly soon after the ice stops falling, to get the best effects. The picture doesn't do it justice. It was stunningly beautiful out there this morning. I wished I could go for a long walk, instead of having to go inside and work.
Beautiful photograph... I love pictures of ice storms, but remembering everything about them, I hate the ice storms themselves. So far haven't seen one here.
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Date: 2007-01-16 02:24 pm (UTC):)
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Date: 2007-01-16 06:00 pm (UTC)1) Do you know how to use a chain-saw?
2) Do you know how to milk a cow?
3) Do you have a four-wheel drive vehicle?
Doctors and nurses were noted but were not a priority.
Here are some of what I think of as the most telling photos taken during the event
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=1998+ice+storm+photos
especially
http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~dominic/storm/TREE2.jpg
and the first one here
http://windupradio.com/icestorm.htm
This is an excellent summary
http://dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca/Collection/Statcan/16F0021X/storm.pdf
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Date: 2007-01-16 06:20 pm (UTC)I took the picture from my driveway this morning because it was so amazingly pretty. We don't always get the proper amount of sunshine after an ice storm, to light things up like that. You have to have bright sun in the morning or evening when the sun is at a low angle, fairly soon after the ice stops falling, to get the best effects. The picture doesn't do it justice. It was stunningly beautiful out there this morning. I wished I could go for a long walk, instead of having to go inside and work.
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