Ice Storm

We have survived a terrific ice storm in our area. At one point in the Joplin viewing area there were over 60,000 homes without power. Alas, we were one of them. We are so grateful we made it just fine and turned it in to a real "camping" experience for the kids. We roasted weenies over the fireplace, heated our chili on the coals, and boiled water for coffee there too. Thankfully, our power was only off for 31 hours. We're now "back on the air!"

We have suffered significant damage to our trees, but guess the good Lord knew which ones to prune and which ones to leave. We do have 3 holes in our roof from the Sycamore trees that are at the west end of the house plus our guttering is gone on that end also.

Here are some of the pictures:

This was a beautiful white dogwood right in our front door. It's just about a total loss.

It's hard to really see the damage from these pictures, but there was over an inch of ice on these trees.

The following was taken in the back yard.

This picture just a couple of limbs that went thru the roof.

This shows one of the other limbs that came thru--this would be right over our bedroom.

We have filed a claim with the insurance and they told us if we could do anything to stop further damage to do it...well, Kurt decided he'd try to get the limbs out. He almost scared me to death. Here's the video I took of it. Pam promissed to whip him if he ever tried to do anything like that again. It was raining when he did this, and you must remember he will be 80 in just a few months! I am so thankful all the damage he did was to his lip!

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Here Comes the Ice

At this writing, Joplin and the surrounding area is covered in ice. All of the schools are closed and looks as if it's going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. The weather reports are saying this could last through Tuesday! Thankfully we still have power even though there are several parts of town that are without power. Several area shelters have opened for people to find a place to get warm. Pam and Chris are without power so they will be spending the night with us. We just pray everyone remains safe.

I am going to repost a layout that I had posted earlier. I'm trying to get my pictures so they can be enlarged if you click on them. I was able to do it one time, but that was all. Guess I wasn't holding my mouth right. Well, I'll just try again!