Ice and Snow
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 9:42AM 
I snapped a number of pictures of our ice and snow last week in the Northwest. It was both an epic and beautiful storm. It was a lot more beautiful if you had power. Today there are still a number of people that don't. We were fortunate and other than a 24 hour stretch with no cable or internet, we came through unscathed.
Unfortunately, some of the storm was unplanned, like the additional 3 inches of snow we got after the ice storm. Please note my ice coated raspberry plants... poor things.
Here's a better shot of them. They took it in the shorts. We'll see how hearty they are come spring.
Here's our neighbor's ice and snow coated tree draped over our fence.
This is the top part of the tree that fell behind our house. You would not believe the noise it made coming down! All you can see in this shot is it's ice coated branches. It fell perfectly between the building and our fence harming neither. Other trees in the area were not so polite and fell on houses, fences and cars.
I'll end with this shot of a lovely old tree in front of my employer's, Even a sturdy old soldier like this was no match for the weight of ice and snow this storm brought.
Here's hoping this storm loses ground as it heads east. We are happy to see it go but hoping it doesn't do our neighbors like it did us!
Warmly,
AG
Reader Comments (6)
Yowza that is quite the storm! Has it already melted? We got some snow, but not much and it's already gone.
That's a lot like what happened here at the end of October .. trees down everywhere .. our latest 'storm' blew in, blew out, then it rained, then the temps went up into the 50 so no more snow to be seen which in my opinion is just fine thank you......SO glad none of that hit your house or car or any of youse! xo
That first pic looks like white astilbe flowers. Glad you fared okay!
There is still snow around our house and street even though it has rained for 3 days. They plowed very late in the storm and the snow and ice "balled up" by the side of the road.
Yes, the picture does look like astilbe, but it's frozen snow, right before the ice storm!
The first photo really does look like white astilbe, doesn't it? Glad you weren't without power. And that your internets came right back!
That first photo is so beautiful! Now it's back to normal wet Seattle winter.