Ice, again...

[iaJim]

I lost some thirty plus year old trees today. I guess this much ice finds weaknesses, and makes weaknesses in trees that just aren't strong enough. Both of the big losses were ashes, one a summit ash and the other a Marshal ash. OK, the emerald ash beetle would have gotten them soon enough anyway, but I hated to see them go. I saw most of the big limbs come down, and narrowly missed getting in the way a couple of times. Sort of strange to hear the cracking of limbs and the tinkle of ice all day long. Tonight the wind may do more damage. My neighbor said that this storm is the result of global warming. If there hadn't been a warm layer of air, it would have come as snow. It's the worst I've seen in my 32 years in this community. This is more of a Missouri storm which has moved a hundred miles north.

http://gallery.mac.com/jlippold#100022/PICT0003&bgcolor=black

[jdc]

bummer

[dmann]

Sorry about your trees iaJim and be careful out there. It missed us here in Chicago- all the warnings are in place, a bunch of schools closed today and so far all we have had is rain.

I am supposed to go to Iowa City this weekend and hope things clear up a bit by then.

DM

[iaJim]

It sounds as if the weekend might be OK in Iowa. The weatherman said that we had five days of rather uninteresting weather ahead of us. That's good news.

[C(-)ris]

Yep. We got a lot of ice here in Dubuque. It was sleeting when I went out to go to work. Car was covered with a 1/4 thick sheet of ice. I decided I was better off walking to work today.