Thursday, February 12, 2009

Ice Storm Photos

An ice storm hit us January 26Th and 27Th. We were without power for the 10 days following. Not to mention cell phone service was out for the first several days. There were over 170,000 homes in Kentucky alone that were affected. There are still thousands of homes across the state without power. Power crews from other states came to Kentucky to work around the clock to help get utilities back on for us.

This one is looking down our driveway to the road. We had already moved several large limbs from the drive before I took this.

If you look closely in this shot you can see the slide from the boys swing set. These are trees that were so heavy from the ice they were bent over the swing-set. Luckily they didn't break and completely fall on the set. The boys are happy it survived.




Another shot down our drive.





The top of a tree in our front yard. Several large limbs had broken off.




This is a shot right out my front door. The limbs that had fallen from the tree above.




A shot of the tree-line and pasture.


The next few shots were just me playing around.


Trent's tractor...






Bird in on a limb.






My statues...










Red berries on a tree. I thought they were so pretty. I couldn't get much closer to them to get a better shot because limbs were falling all around me. I was afraid to get under the trees next to it to get a better shot.








Ice on the limbs with a bird house in the back ground.












Ice on the gate.







Ice on a Cedar Tree.







The ice and snow are now gone and the clean up has begun. It really does look like a war zone out there. But we are counting our blessing because it could have been much worse.
Keep the families who are still without power in your prayers.
~Monica~





3 comments:

Melissa S said...

oh wow!!! I couldn't really understand how big this was until I saw the pics! Which, btw..you did a fabulous job of composing!

dutchbird said...

The pictures are gorgeous, but I can imagine that it wasn't any fun for you guys!

~kRiStY~ said...

i think you did a wonderful job with these photos! my favorite is the tractor photo!! good job!