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So you've all heard about the ice storm sheathing central Illinois (and a lot of other places) in solid H2O.  (Thanks for the outage announcement, [livejournal.com profile] janetmiles.)  For some reason I was reminded of a favorite Irish song, "Why Paddy's Not at Work Today," which details a series of horrible accidents.  Here, it only took nature deciding to dress up in full-plate mail...


This is the view southwest from our house, shooting downward through one of Doug's office windows.  You can see some trees and the south hedge clad in ice.  Depending on what part of yard you check, the coating is mostly 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick.  Some areas have little coating but most have quite a bit.  There are small branches down but so far no trees, and hopefully the ice will melt off before anything shatters.


Here I'm shooting almost level through Doug's other window, looking west.  Those are small branches coated in ice.


Here is a sycamore seed ball next to an icicle.This and the remaining pictures are shot looking eastward over our roof, from a window atop the stairs.


This is a glazed sycamore leaf. 


Most of the time, an ice storm leaves fairly smooth coatings, except for icicles on eaves and such.  This one, for some reason, produced a lot of small icicles everywhere.  Here is a picture of ice fringe on the sycamore tree.


So, that's where went with today's intended poetry fishbowl.  I'll have to reschedule that, probably for Tuesday 8.  The net connection did come back in late afternoon, too late to salvage the planned activities.  (Given previous experience, I suspect that connection may be spitty for the next day or two.)  Instead I've spent most of the day writing fiction, and we watched a movie over supper .

Re: Yes...

Date: 2011-02-02 08:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com
Thanks. We'll do our best. The challenge is -- this storm caught us right before a shopping trip, so we're low on supplies. (We know better, but can't always afford to stock up as we'd like.) And the weather is crud for at least a week. We're supposed to get several inches of snow tonight and tomorrow. 0_o So, maybe after that gets plowed, it will produce navigable roads by covering the ice glaze. We'll have to wait and see.

Warm, yes. I'm very grateful for the power being on and hope it stays that way. We have a woodstove if we need it, though.

Positive thoughts are welcome. I'm still concerned about our trees under the weight of all that cladding.

Re: Yes...

Date: 2011-02-02 08:53 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] red-trillium.livejournal.com
Are both of you ok with gluten? I've found the Artisan Bread in 5 minutes is an easy recipe. You make about 4 pounds of it at a time, keep it refrigerated and bake as needed over 2 wks. It's no-knead and if you guys have flour, salt, sugar, water and yeast you're set. If the power goes off you could keep the dough in a cold room and bake in a cast iron pan with say doubled tin foil or in a cast iron dutch oven if you have one???

Master recipe here. They've also got a whole wheat sandwhich bread recipe on the site, it only keeps for a few days.

Positive thoughts to your trees too. I hope they are able to last through this storm.

Re: Yes...

Date: 2011-02-02 08:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com
We're okay with gluten, yes. I can bake bread if it comes to that. What we're running low on are the perishables. We're in no danger of going without food, just some stuff that we like and use frequently. *chuckle* I think my mother and I tried making bread with the woodstove a time or two, when I was little. Certainly we cooked on it more than once, but that usually involved saucepans or skillets on top, which works rather well.

Re: Yes...

Date: 2011-02-02 10:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-vulture.livejournal.com
Maybe there's some value in having Ramen on hand, after all. :)

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