The past week has been something I will never forget.Last Tuesday this all started with freezing rain that by early that morning already had the trees and power lines covered.Our electric went out sometime Tuesday morning while we were at work.By the time we returned around 7:30pm it sounded like a war zone .Every time a tree fell the sound was like a gun going off there was nothing to do but sir in the dark and list and hope they don't hit the house.We were lucky only one small tree hit the house, but we were startled by the noise of this tree crashing across our fence and landing on the patio.We were unable to sleep so we finally got up around 3 am tried to get ready for work by candle light.Barry didn't have to report to work but unfortunately I did so he stayed home and I am glad he did because with the rain continuing and no electric our crawl space was quickly filling up with water and reaching our furnace with an alarming rate.Luckily after many phone calls and couple of hours he found a generator we could use to run the pumps to get the water our before and damage was done.Our power returned around 8 pm on Wednesday so we were without electric for about 36 hours.We were lucky most people were without for days and some still are.
After the freezing rain the snow came and turned every thing into a winter wonderland.This storm was pretty but sadly it was deadly ,on the news this morning the death count in Ky was 25.With temps well below freezing and in the single digits people were desperate and did what they could to stay warm.Carbon monoxide poising caused most deaths the rest from hypothermia.
Here are a few pictures taking around my house and surrounding area.
You can click on any picture to see the details of the ice and snow.
