Ice Storm

January 25th brought the area an unusual ice storm.  I'm used to a version of these from my Michigan days, but this was worse.  About 1/4 in. of ice covered EVERYTHING.  People and cars were sliding around all over the place.  Thank goodness for a pile of snow by our mailbox or my brother would have taken it out with his car.  My neighbor slid into her snowbank too and when she tried to get out of the car she fell.  She had to crawl across her driveway in order to get to the ice-covered snow before she could make it into her house.  I stayed inside that day.  Except for a couple of pictures, of course. ;)

My brother's car only got this close to getting to the driveway.

He's trying to walk on it.  The wet looking part is actually completely frozen.

This was a chunk that he picked up as he and Dad were trying to chop away at it.

His old car.  The picture doesn't do it justice.  It had a layer of ice all over it.