OMG, Randy!!!!
Oklahoma seems to go from one disaster to the next! I'm SO sorry about all the trees - sounds like a hurricane, as a matter of fact, when I hear a chain saw, I think of hurricanes.
The ice is beautiful, I just wish it weren't so deadly to trees and power lines.
Would you believe it's been in the upper 70's here every day for about a week, and the humidity is so high I been turning on the air-conditioner briefly each day?
Keep us posted.
MissSherry

Randy, you do take the mose interesting pictures. Thanks for sharing them with us. So sorry you guys got hit so hard. It missed us here in SE OK and after last years ice storm in January/February, I was just as glad. I am just not ready for winter this year in any way, shape or form. The warm, long fall we had has spoiled me.

MissSherry, I know what you mean about chain saws and hurricanes. My parents are in Pensacola, Fla and I went down to help them clean up after Ivan the year before Katrina. I know that "K" was meaner than Ivan, but Ivan wasn't a pussycat either. The week and a half that I was down there, you heard chain saws all day long and from every direction. Even though the county was sending big trucks to pick up the debris that was stacked along the streets a couple of times a day, every day, it stayed constantly stacked up above my head and I'm 5ft 6in. and extended all up and down our street. Well, enough about that!

To all of you that have experienced this bad ice storm, my thoughts and prayers are with you.

As MissSherry says - "Keep us posted".

Ms. Faith

Randy, glad to hear that you are ok, and have power. Such devastation. So sorry to hear about your trees. We were spared this time. We got hit hard in the '02 ice storm. Alot of the beautiful old trees never regained their magestry that they once were. From drought to floods to ice storm, I think that we've experienced them all this year.

Chainsaw hums and generator sputters will become a common noise. You will cringe with every pop, silence, and wait for the loud crash, fearing another limb has crashed somewhere.

Keep the pics coming. Wow, that mesonet snap is really amazing. Isn't it?

Glad to hear that you were spared from the ice storm, Faith. Once in a lifetime is enough!

Still waiting to hear from Sandy and Elaine. And, I haven't heard from Marilyn yet, either. I imagine that she was hit pretty hard, also.

Wonder how many chrysalises and cocoons will get shredded and hauled off with debris this year?

Probably quite a few chrysalids and cocoons will die in all the devastation, Linda - I think that's what happened to all the big moths after Katrina. 'Sure is depressing - I hate seeing trees and critters die in disasters as much as the people!
MissSherry