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Holly already posted the best of our pictures of the iced-up outdoors during this weekend’s storm. If you want to see the rest, feel free to click over to our Flickr stream:
Ice storms are freaky, freaky things. I’d never experienced one before moving to Iowa. They are scary, and I gotta say, having your power go out is much worse when the radio tells you that 200,000 other people are in the same boat. Blackouts are not the kind of misery that loves company.
Our power was out for maybe 18 hours (including overnight), and our house shed about 11 degrees of heat. I feel incredibly lucky to be among those whose power was restored relatively quickly; there are still tens of thousands of Iowans with no power, and those in rural areas especially may not have power back until late this week. Here’s hoping that, unlike us, they have wood-burning stoves or at least space heaters. On the plus side, roads are more or less fine at this point, so at worst people can drive elsewhere.
Ice storms are scary. We have them quite often up here. I love how pretty everything is though, except cars. I hate having to scrape the ice off the windows. The ice makes all the windows look like mirrors and when you chip it off it feels like you are going to break the windows. Luckly we have never experienced one with extended power outages. The year before we moved here there was a huge ice storm which left everyone without power for almost a week. Now everyone with houses have generators and apartments mostly heat off gas to prevent freezing to death. Luckly you guys made it without having to buy a generator. Chrys