Ice-pocalypse

We got some interesting weather here in Dallas this weekend.  After temperatures were in the mid to upper 70's on Wednesday, a massive cold front came through on Thursday bringing with it lots of freezing rain and ice.  The ice storm started Thursday evening and lasted until mid-day on Friday.   With it came a lot of downed trees (one of which almost went through our front door) and treacherous driving conditions.  Temperatures have stayed below freezing until this afternoon so much of the ice has stayed around.

This kind of weather doesn't come around very often in the Dallas area so people aren't quite sure how to respond.  Dallas has no salt trucks so cleaning the streets has been very slow.  The ice/slush has slowly disappeared because of people driving on them rather than road crews cleaning them off.  The city has essentially been shut down for the past three days.  I was supposed to run on a relay team for the Dallas Marathon this morning but it was cancelled.  Church was cancelled this morning due to icy sidewalks and parking lots, etc, etc, etc.

While the weather has been pretty miserable, the ice has created a lot of beauty that we typically wouldn't see.  Here are some images that Sara and I captured: