Ice Ice Baby

As the temperature has not lifted above freezing, the ice has remained exactly where it was last put.  Which was on all the trees and buildings.  Icicles remain precisely in place, although the trees that were in the roads have been moved for the most part.  A simple commute to church - which you can see in the photo I took above - is a minor sampling of a tour of destruction.  Trees are down all over.  Some are huge, one in particular slammed down like a toll booth gate just before Browns Bridge.  Branches decorate the sides of the road, each one still covered with the glittering ice.

And it is absolutely frigid too.  There's a wind that packs a frozen punch, pushing you indoors as soon as possible.  Daddy toured the church grounds, and there are a few trees we lost, one falling in the road around the back.  Another tree looks like it will snap at any moment, unless something is done soon.  This ice storm has certainly taken its toll.

Believe it or not, it snowed today.  This was not forecast at all, but there was a blinding white snowstorm that struck at home where Madison was - she didn't have school again today.  It also came to Gainesville, the closest thing we've had to a whiteout in Georgia.  Daddy was a part of one a few years ago in Buffalo, which of course is much more severe.  But this one was surprising.  And the snow kept falling too, which was alarming in a way because nobody was expecting this.  As a precautionary measure, church closed tonight just in case the roads became too dangerous to drive.  Daddy went home early and safely, and we were blessed to spend some more time together there.  Madison didn't go to tennis today, completing her three-day sweep of missing just about everything.  But she did have fun making red envelopes for her classmates for the Chinese New Year upcoming.  She got chocolate coins, and placed them into red envelopes, enough for all her classmates and teachers.  She's a sweet girl!