I drove home today from Mel’s house. Most of the early ride, was uneventful. However, as I neared Vermont and southern New Hampshire I saw ICE, and lots of it.
At first I thought it was just incredibly beautiful. All lacy and crystallized against the bright blue sky!
But then as I drove further north I began to see that this was no innocent light ice storm. No, this was quite honestly an ICE Disaster!
The Public Works Department was out trying to clear the roads. Until they can do their work, I’m afraid that pictures like this,
will be quite common. In fact I have heard that many areas in our state will not get their electricity back until mid-week.
I stopped to get groceries and happily found that our grocery store had power and I was able to stock up on food for Hubby and me and for the dogs as well. I ran into the meat manager that I have known for many years and he told me that several of their sister stores are closed due because they don’t have electricity and that the perishable foods were being moved to the remaining stores that have power.
Coming home I was greeted by 4 very happy doggies and one extremely happy husband!
We cooked Lobster for dinner (I truly know how to make Hubby even happier to see me!) and we have cuddled close together as the temperatures are really plummeting tonight.
It is very good to be back home though, despite the ICE!
That looks indeed beautiful but what a disaster !
WHEW….thank goodness you made the drive without any problems. I am shivering just thinking about all that ice.
hugs,
linda in DE
Nice pictures,but wow Ice can really be bad too. MISS YOU! Love YOU, Mel
Extraordinary nature pictures, but we heard about this ICE Disaster on the news in Norway yesterday too. Glad you are fine after all and safe and sound at home!
Wishing you a great week ahead 🙂
The ice is beautiful but it sounds like it’s causing such problems 🙁 Hope you’re keeping warm!
The pictures are beautiful, Maribeth, but of course we don’t like the ice when it’s causing trouble for people. Stay warm and I am glad you could stock up on food… you never know!
As beautiful as this looks, it is also quite dauntingly dangerous…
I do hope that it warms up (just enough to get the electricity back on where needed) for you!
Apologies for not ‘popping by’, but we have been busy with house reno’s, L’s birthday and she has had surgery as well…
Every few years we get a havoc wreaking gorgeous ice storm like this! Our family always just hunkers down, lights a fire, and ENJOYS it! One year we lived without POWER for 10 days! The worst part was NO showers!!! LOL! But we just make the best of it and have fun.