Ice Storm of 2009

We just got internet up and running after several days.  The ice storm hit here in KY and made things a real mess.  I was down in the bed with stomach flu or some such virus...an insidious attack that left me weak, queasy, and unable to do much at all for a few days.  It was quite surreal lying in bed hearing the trees exploding outside the house and occasionally bashing into the roof.  Suzann was in the basement and refused to come upstairs but sparingly.  We still have no power at home...nor will we for several days.  It looks like a war zone.

Kinda reminds me of old photos from the civil war where the cannons had shredded the tops of trees at Gettysburg.  In fact the loud cracking and popping sounded like gunfire and the ice falling like shrapnel all around.  I finally gained some strength to go outside and bring in more firewood.  Having no hard hat, I put on my 4wheeler helmet for protection...not much good it would have done if one of the trees came down on top of me.  Suzann and I were cooking on the coleman stove on the back screen porch when half of a big oak just snapped off and came crashing down not 20 feet away.  Now there is just a long stump sticking up.  

The power came back on at the studio in Etown so we ventured over there and have been staying the nights.  We come home during the days so that we can build a small fire in the wood furnace to keep the house from freezing.  And so it goes here in KY.  They say this is the worst power outtage in the states history and may take days if not weeks to repair.  It is definitely the worst ice storm I can remember in my 55 years.  Ice on branches over an inch thick.

Well, that's it for now.  Hopefully there will be sunshine and warmth in the near future...I am ready for it.