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Originally Posted by Mischa Milosevic
It was the year of that ice storm in Dallas if you recall. 1000 accidents the firs hour of driving that morning. The previous night I was in a t-shirt.
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I didn't live down here that year, but from the ice storm we had here in December of 2000, I can well imagine. We were without electricity (and therefore heat and water) for 9 days. That was quite an adventure. I remember Christmas night laying in the complete blackness of no power and hearing tree limbs continuously crashing to the ground all around the house. One sound was coming from the fuse box in our closet, so John braved the storm and dropping limbs to go outside to see what was causing that sound. Literally there was 3 inches of ice on the outside electrical box and the weight of it was pulling the outside box off the wall. He had to hammer the ice off. Fortunately the box didn't get damaged; everyone in our rural area had to be without power that nine days. We would have been out even longer if that box had not survived. Only in the last two years has the vast forests of the region recovered enough that you cannot see the damage from that storm. For years it looked like a war zone. We lost every bough on our two pecan trees. Fortunately, the trees directly next to the house miraculously bent down below the edge of the roof before breaking and spared us the horror that many of our neighbors had when limbs feel on rooves. Yes, events like that really do stick with you.