Ice

We had a cold storm last week. It started on Wednesday with freezing rain that coated things in a layer of ice. This was followed by a cold snap when the clouds cleared, the worst of which was Saturday when the predicted high was only 28 and the low was around 20. With the continued cold, everything just stayed frozen.

 

The trees around town lost a ton of branches; driving around there were tree branches everywhere. This big branch came down right between our house and the neighbor's. As expected, there were also a lot of power outages. We were fortunate that we only lost power for a couple hours Thursday morning; parts of Eugene were without power for 3-4 days.

Saturday the sun came out and it was beautiful, but still cold. 

The branches on this tree were so heavy with ice that they leaned way over the street, mostly blocking the street behind our driveway. 

These trees that were completely white were my favorite; they looked so pretty.

Finally on Monday, the clouds came back and it started raining again, so things warmed up and by that afternoon the ice was mostly melted.