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Originally Posted by SoonerCoug
We don't normally get ice storms like this. Trees that are ~60 years old were completely toppled. It's the worst destruction I've ever seen.
It just lasted a day or so, but the ice was so think and heavy that it literally devastated the city. I don't know how it happened. I just woke up in the morning, and everything was covered in ice. For example, the ice was so thick over the grass that you could walk on it as if you were walking on a frozen pond, without it cracking. And the shape of the ice followed the contours of blades of grass. Same goes for pine trees. You had ice covering little groups of pine needles. When I woke up and saw the ice, I thought: "This is gorgeous." But within 24 hours, everything collapsed. A forty foot pine tree went down in our yard--completely uprooted.
But they've got power restored at the mall--and in the rich neighborhoods.
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Wow.
It sounds like an ice storm can make things look beautiful. Then again, the snow covering a mountain is beautiful just before the avalanche is released.
Winter storms in Sicily were amazing. Heavy rainfall that can last upwards of 24+ hours; gale force winds; I remember the first one I experienced in Palermo. We lived just on the outskirts of the city toward the beach areas and the morning after a storm had been going on all night washed two small fishing dinghies in the square less than 1km from our apartment - and the square was a good 200m from the sea where the dinghies were docked.
Glad to hear you're ok.