Living the Country Life Magazine - "Worst Weather - The Crack of Ice"

The crack of iceOne morning in 2007 we awoke to an eerie silence interrupted by what sounded like cracks of gunfire. We ran outside and saw an incredible scene: Every surface was coated with a half-inch layer of ice, and the elm and maple trees were sheared off like a tornado had passed by. Power lines lay limp on the ground, and every few minutes another limb broke off with an earsplitting crack. We had to live with my mother-in-law for a week until our electricity was back on. We made it a vacation for our boys. We still have not burned all the firewood we collected from the trees damaged by that ice storm.
Julie Casey, Union Star, Missouri

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