Ice Storm of 2008

I hope it's not too early to call this one THE Ice storm of 2008. There is still the rest of February and March to go, plus October, November, and December. But I'm confident that if nothing else, I can come up with additional nomenclature. And it was a doozy after all. Schools everywhere canceled for days, even the university and local government was closed for a day, thousands without power even still.

Dogwood tree.

We have about two inches of ice on the ground, I think. Very little melting so far, though today may change that.

Giant bonsai tree.


One of the nandinas.

Owen is having a great time checking out this alien ice world. He asks to go outside and go ice breaking. That involves snapping off every single icicle he can find and throwing big chunks of ice on the ground to watch the impressive shattering.

O. inspecting the damage to a dwarf crepe myrtle.