On Thursday, an ice storm knocked out power to almost 400,000 residents of New Hampshire. Now, I'd never heard of an ice storm until this weekend. The first image that comes to mind is huge chuncks of solid ice falling from the sky and tundra-esque winds sweeping across the state. Turns out it's not like that.
An ice storm is when freezing rain coats all stationary surfaces (including trees and power lines) with an ice casing that makes the trees sag and the power lines snap.
My house never lost power (luckily!), but we did have a sleep over with some friends who had to leave their dark, cold apartment. Over half of the power has been restored, but there is still a long way to go to get back to normal here.
Oh, and did I mention school was canceled on Friday and again today!
2 comments:
What does one do with an ice day? Can you sled on ice?
I grew up with ice storms and it really was not a fun day. Mostly we had power out. So it was candlelight coldness and bologna sandwiches. Are you back to school Mich?
J
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