Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Ice Storm 2010

This past weekend we received a "wintry mix" of weather that blanketed the area in ice. Fortunately not as bad as 1994. I read in the news that about 17,000 people lost power compared to 250,000 in 1994. We lost power for a few hours during the night, and I heard that others were without for a couple of days. Back in 1994, I recall people living for weeks without power.

On Sunday, the sun came out although the high was still only 31 degrees. We were all ready to get out of the house, so I took the boys for an extended bike ride. We ended up riding 8 miles, including a stop at the Water Spray Park which was covered in ice. The whole time we were riding was very surreal -- all the trees and shrubs were covered in ice and it seemed like we were riding around in the Land of Glass: