It was a little tough trying to get into and out of Oklahoma City with the storms. The ice storm devasted trees and 200,000 were still without power as of the end of the day yesterday and some are calling it the worst storm of the century in Oklahoma in terms of power outtages. Out-of-state crews to trim trees and repair power lines had to be brought in. It was the trees with huge branches lopped off, broken by the heavy ice, that I couldn't believe. "The sound was unforgettable," one of my friends told me as she described how the branches sounded as they split and fell. "Nichols Hills will never be the same," said another friend. The scene at left is from that city-within-a-city. My Ice Storm Photos are up on Flickr that capture the unbelievable broken nature of things.
I've not been in Oklahoma City during the last two decades when horrid ice storms have hit the state, which weather experts attribute to climate changes that cause snow to turn to ice because of uneven atmosphere temperatures. In all of my growing-up years there I never saw anything such as this.
Meanwhile, Dallas was untouched with the trees all decorated in white lights as they are here, in Highland Park Village, pictured at right. Houston's Galleria area used to be all lit up with white lights on the trees when we lived there. So I enjoyed driving around looking at Christmas lights in Highland Park as the holiday scene in the front yards wasn't very festive at all, being in such a broken mess.
Wow, an incredible mess. Here in Boston we are experiencing below-normal temps and having huge snowstorms in December, which is pretty unusual.
Posted by: Rhea | December 17, 2007 at 08:59 AM