Weathered the Storm

So we had our first Missouri ice storm this last week. We were kind of excited! and I told the lady at Walmart that when I was buying our provisions, and of course she thought I was crazy. The last two years they've had horrible ice storms, with power out for days, if not weeks, trees breaking everywhere, bad bad stuff. So no one here was excited for it! But we wanted to see what all the hubbub was about. So we filled our propane tanks, made sure our gas fireplace was working, got plenty of necessity food, i.e. chips, ice cream (it'll keep in the snow), and fruit snacks, and hunkered down for the storm. It was pretty fun to keep running to the window to see what the weather was doing, freezing rain is an interesting thing to see, hear, watch. It's like rain, but frozen! :-) in little droplets, and freezes again when it hits anything. It coats everything, the roads, power lines, trees, grass blades, Chris had fun taking shots of it the next morning. It's very beautiful, but very dangerous. If the power lines get more than about 1/2" of coating, they sag and snap. Trees often snap as well onto the power lines and cause outages. Nobody goes anywhere after an ice storm. Maci's school was cancelled for 3 days! But we never lost power and have been fine, besides trying to keep the kids occupied! We got about 3 inches of snow on top of the ice, so the kids had fun playing in that, although it is NOT the greatest snow on earth. Anyway, I'm glad to say our first ice storm is behind us, although I doubt it will be our last.