Comments later...I gotta quit turning my phone...feel free to turn them if you want

Welp, tried to post pics, but our internet is down and my cell signal sucks.

We lost a big, beautiful sugar maple, it pretty much split in half.

Power restoration estimated by Sunday, according to DTE.

Thank goodness for generators.

Oh, wow! I'm so sorry you both had to deal with these damages!

I swear to God that looks like my box elder and my barn behind it...

It's not really safe out there...the trees breaking sounds like gunfire...do be standing under anything

Absolutely not safe! we were just out on our deck and could hear “cracking” down in our woods…

This is the scope of the ice

And this is a plow stake for those who don't know

Ken, that’s my shed behind my cracked tree.…i wish it was a barn! It sure does look so much like your tree & barn though!!

Be careful out there, Michigan friends!

Be safe! Ice storms are a terribly damaging event. So sorry for you all. This one missed us but we had one a few weeks ago. Lots of downed trees and branches. It is really cold today and I don't want to go out again. It snowed last night and I cleared the deck before the plow person showed up. That was enough for me.

Ouch! So sorry for you folks. The ice stayed south of me but we got a fair amount of sleet and snow. I just finished cleaning up the slushy mess as we will be in the single digits overnight tonight.

tj

We got missed too. About 3" of a very fine flakes, cold snow and a lot of wind last night. I think the storm came from the south and moved east so we only caught the edge. I think Mpls/St Paul & SSE MN was 20" in places.

What a mess 😫

Lost power here with no estimate in sight. Heard some of the eeeriest sounds last night....lots of branches down and major melting going on now with lots of drippage and falling ice. Over 650k lost power, praying it wont be much longer...brrrrrr.

Back fence line iced and weighed down...

to everyone affected..stay safe..

14 inches of snow here.

It's been a bizzare winter for many. Los Angeles county currenty under a blizzard warning, while there was crazy record heat in the Southeast today. I have had no snow here this year at 41 North in NJ, but there was a rare February tornado the other day in central NJ. Ice storms are the WORST.Tornado damage in NJ, February

Unfortunate. Ice storm in SW Virginia in, I think Feb 1994, had 3 in of solid ice on everything. Oak branch broke and smashed top of truck and front windshield in driveway. Near my house a whole area of a mountainside totally uprooted downhill like dominoes. Most oaks had branches bent but not many broken. Red maples, tuliptrees and white pines were mostly destroyed. Some rural areas had power out for a month.

Sad for all with downed or damaged trees. We had a similar situation in Va last winter. DH spent much of this past year with the chain saw and mulcher.

Glad everyone is safe, and sorry for the tree losses! I usually walk my dog in the woods, but stayed out of there for a while. A few big trees/branches down - was on the phone with my elderly mom, heard a crack and saw a huge chunk of a beech tree drop.

Great pictures Ken ("scope of the ice") - looking at the thick coating on each blade of grass in my front yard was amazing.

Yikes, everyone in zones north! We had 70-80 degree weather here with dip into 50’s this weekend. It has been quite unseasonably warm, spring a full month ahead of schedule. We could still have some ice storms in the coming weeks.

Just got my power back last night - 4 days. Coulda been worse -- I am grateful I got it back when I did, I wasn't expecting to. Fortunately I have a gas fireplace and that kept the house in the 60s, but no water. DH doesn't ask anymore why I keep a stash of jugs of water in the basement...

Good to hear, mxk3! Our power was back on late Saturday. We don’t have an integrated whole house generator, but we have a transfer-switch thingie which makes it super convienient to plug our portable generator in and then turn on the circuits we want to power, like our furnace and well-pump, along with just about everything else except for maybe the electric ovens. Now we folks in SE Michigan just have to be prepared for the possible snow storm on Friday!

Oh, I was all set to get a whole house generator....yes indeed I was...was ready to sign on the dotted line and have it installed along with the new HVAC system we had put in. And then DH veto'd me.. You cannot imagine what satisfaction I got from him telling me I WAS RIGHT and we should have gotten it -- worth the PITA no power no water TWICE in 6 months BWAAAHAHAAHAHA! (seriously, though -- no power is one thing, no water takes it up to an entirely different level).

Didn't hear about the storm Friday. But hey it's March on Wednesday and in my head that means it's S-P-R-I-N-G!

to put fine point on it... for you city folk .. when you have a well .. run on electric... you dont have a toilet .... drinking water is the least of your problems... if you get my drift ... ken

Yep. no toilet, no shower, no ANYTHING that uses water. We also keep a couple gallon jugs of water so we can at least flush a toilet. I’m glad you’re all up and running and SAFE.

Honestly, we didn’t want to invest in a whole house generator since we might be moving to the west side of the state; the transfer switch thingie was a great solution, just a few hundred bucks plus the cost of the portable generator, which we already had and can take with us when we move.