2005 started out with a memorable ice storm. This wasn’t the typical storm that most of your are thinking of where you have freezing rain and inches of ice coating the trees and powerlines. This storm was a little different. While there was freezing rain, there was also falling ice, which is something you don’t see every day. For several hours ice pellets were falling from the sky, along with some rumbles and cracks of thunder. Weird, huh? When all was said and done, we got about an inch of snow mixed with it, but that snow mixed with the freezing rain and ice pellets really did a number on the roads for the day.

My wife and I were out at our friends farm visiting our horses and mini donkey during the storm. Sheba, the donkey, clearly wasn’t too happy with the storm. When we got her into the barn she was coated with ice. Yes. Those are icicles hanging from her eyebrows. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like that before.

Happy 2005 everyone!

–Pete