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The storm went through yesterday -- early morning through the night. Cities north of us (anything above Dayton) got snow; cities south of us (Louisville) received lots of rain. We were in that lovely area that shows bright purple on the radar, the "mixed precipitation" interface...
Which means we got everything. Well, pretty much. We really didn't get any rain. It started out as snow, dumping a few inches on top of the six we already had, but then for most of the day, it turned to sleet and ice before going back to snow as it ended for a final inch or so.
Everything is coated with a fairly hefty layer of ice. Last night, you could stand outside and hear the ice cracking as the wind moved the branches. If you stood there for longer than a minute or two, there would be a much louder and sustained crashing as a branch fell somewhere nearby. If it was close enough, we could watch it tumbling down through the tree, taking out other smaller branches and showering the ground with ice shards.
All the trees in the neighborhood have lost branches, the firs especially; some few trees have gone down entirely. All the branches are hanging heavy and dangerous -- fatally so, in one case. A nine year old girl, off from school, went walking her dog yesterday afternoon and was killed when a branch fell on her...
The news is saying that there are 100,000+ houses without electricity this morning; luckily, we're not among them. We have branches down in the yard, but the heavy ones managed to miss the power lines, though one got a neighbor's car, and another ripped the power lines from the house across the street. Several of us spent a few hours yesterday evening sawing through a tree that had toppled a few houses down, taking out a fence and blocking the next-door neighbor's driveway (hence the sawing).
It's pretty, but it's treacherous... NKU (the school where I teach) was closed yesterday, and is closed today as well. Denise, however, had to go to work both yesterday and today, poor thing.
I took a few pictures. Hopefully I've scaled them down enough for easy loading, but I'll put them behind a cut anyway for those of you with slower connections (or no interest)...
Which means we got everything. Well, pretty much. We really didn't get any rain. It started out as snow, dumping a few inches on top of the six we already had, but then for most of the day, it turned to sleet and ice before going back to snow as it ended for a final inch or so.
Everything is coated with a fairly hefty layer of ice. Last night, you could stand outside and hear the ice cracking as the wind moved the branches. If you stood there for longer than a minute or two, there would be a much louder and sustained crashing as a branch fell somewhere nearby. If it was close enough, we could watch it tumbling down through the tree, taking out other smaller branches and showering the ground with ice shards.
All the trees in the neighborhood have lost branches, the firs especially; some few trees have gone down entirely. All the branches are hanging heavy and dangerous -- fatally so, in one case. A nine year old girl, off from school, went walking her dog yesterday afternoon and was killed when a branch fell on her...
The news is saying that there are 100,000+ houses without electricity this morning; luckily, we're not among them. We have branches down in the yard, but the heavy ones managed to miss the power lines, though one got a neighbor's car, and another ripped the power lines from the house across the street. Several of us spent a few hours yesterday evening sawing through a tree that had toppled a few houses down, taking out a fence and blocking the next-door neighbor's driveway (hence the sawing).
It's pretty, but it's treacherous... NKU (the school where I teach) was closed yesterday, and is closed today as well. Denise, however, had to go to work both yesterday and today, poor thing.
I took a few pictures. Hopefully I've scaled them down enough for easy loading, but I'll put them behind a cut anyway for those of you with slower connections (or no interest)...