Michigan ice storm (with pix)!

[Hamorad]

It was quite a large storm, I didn't get a chance to take pictures during the storm or right after because, of course, my camera's batteries were dead.
So here are pictures from 2 days after


My doormat and footprints nicely solidified in ice



Here are some leaves that didn't quite finish falling, completely covered by ice, you can see some on the bottom. The branches are also ice-covered


Here are pictures of some of the hail stones on my car. Most of the hail was pea sized, but at times there were bigger ones


A bunch of downed trees... The trees were extremely fragile due to them being frozen in ice, that coupled with strong winds and the lightning caused quite a few trees to hit power lines. There were 376 reported downed power lines in my county alone


Large amounts of ice were all over the place, especially on branches. You can see this easily on the frozen branch here


More chunks of ice encasing branches


You can clearly see how this branch is completely encased in ice

I wish I could have gotten pictures of things such as trees that had fallen into power lines or other such things, but like I said, no batteries until I got my power back...

[Hamma]

Holy crap that is quite an ice storm.. Ice is far worse than snow storms you can cripple everything from roads to power in a matter of minutes Surprised you still have power and internet to post them

[Hamorad]

Originally Posted by Hamma

Holy crap that is quite an ice storm.. Ice is far worse than snow storms you can cripple everything from roads to power in a matter of minutes Surprised you still have power and internet to post them

My power's been out for a while, I still don't have any power but I got a generator last night

[Jaged]

Looks really cold.

[Peacemaker]

We get ice storms like there here in NY alot of the time. It happens in the spring more than ever. Its even worse than what your showing. One time my car was encased in 3/4ths of an inch of ice. I parked it in a garage and took a hair dryer to it to get it out... Pushing it wasnt hard either... the E brake was on and tires slide on ice quite easy... (pulled it on jacks inside the garage)..

and 2 days ago NY had a HUGE wind storm. People all over the state are with power.... infact Electro might be without power too...

[BUGGER]

Holy crap dude.....the last pic witht he froxen branch is intense.


I got snow for the first time in 5 years. It was narly......like today it was raining and i could hear it on the roof. Suddenly the noise stopped and I looked outside and it was snowing. It only made some slush here but my friends house he's got like an inch and on the top of this mountain there is a good 2-4 inches.

[Rbstr]

We've been getting more and more ice storms here, Just doesn't get as cold or something, three years ago we had a storm that put us out of school for a week, and we were without power for 8 days.

They're hella cool when it doesn't fuck with what your doing, clear coat on everything, hehe.

[xmodum]

Originally Posted by Rbstr

We've been getting more and more ice storms here, Just doesn't get as cold or something, three years ago we had a storm that put us out of school for a week, and we were without power for 8 days.

They're hella cool when it doesn't fuck with what your doing, clear coat on everything, hehe.

Hurricanes > Ice/Snow storms.


9 huge Broken Pine trees in my backyard > Some ice :P

[AztecWarrior]

So YEAH, it was 82 degrees outside in Miami today.