And the Ice Came Down... Loudly

Last night we had an extraordinary ice storm experience that kept us awake for about two hours and then off and on throughout the night. There was a little rain and some wind during the night but it was all the ice everywhere from the previous ice storm over the past couple of days that had such a big impact on us. Starting at around 11:30 pm the ice that coated every branch of every tree in our backyard started coming down and that meant the two trees overhanging the back of our house dropped the ice on our roof making an incredible noise that went on for hours.

It was initially so startling that I had to get up and walk around the house trying to determine where all the sounds were coming from. It almost sounded like an animal in our roof somewhere but I quickly determined that it was pieces of ice falling from the trees on to our house roof. In all of our years in Buffalo we have never experienced something like this before. I wrote about the initial ice storm covering everything yesterday in the blog here. This was all new to us even after over 40 years. 

The backyard, the back porch and the walkway beside the house was all covered with little pieces of ice that looked like ice cubes or shattered glass.

We went out to NCCC today to bring some of Becky's artwork to the gallery where she is exhibiting and fortunately we had a beautiful day and the ice was removed from the car yesterday except for the roof. That did come down but fortunately that happened while we were driving through the campus parking lot rather than on the road because so much ice came down on the windshield that Becky needed to pull over to clear it. 

When we got home this afternoon I went out and cleared the ice from our sidewalk and finished the already started walkway to the side door. It took about an hour to clear that sidewalk. I still need to clear more of the ice away from the driveway and the walkway up to our front porch. I'm making progress but I'll finish that tomorrow.

I was talking to Mark, our next door neighbor, and he said he hardly got any sleep at all last night because of all the falling ice on his house.