The Ice Storm of January 2007

As you've probably seen over in Betsy's blog, South Texas got covered in a blanket of clouds that dropped freezing rain for a few days.

Classes got cancelled. Schools and roads closed. We stayed indoors.

When the rain stopped we found a thick layer of ice embracing averything outside. Here are some pics:

The lights around our pond looked like little cages of ice.


Our weather vane on "the barn" (our shed) had ice on it.


Icicles hanging from the house and ice clinging to the fig tree.


Even the grass got covered in it.




Our grill was covered with a 1/4" of ice.


The crepe myrtles around the pond were encased in ice.


Icicles-a-plenty.