Ice and Sleet

Well, we finally got a winter storm here in the Midatlantic.

But it wasn't snow. It was sleet. Five inches of sleet, to be exact.

In Virginia and Southern Maryland, they had freezing rain -- heavily bowing the trees, and bringing down power lines. We had one of those back in 1999, and I was afraid we might have one of those again. We were one of the lucky ones then . . . our power stayed on, but much of Montgomery County was dark. (And the lines at the assorted neighborhood Starbucks' were HUGE . . .)

This may look like snow, but believe me: this is sleet --

 

After the sleet storm, we had overnight wind. All of the ice clinging to tree branches came down. It made quite a pile of shards:

Some of it even looked like broken beer bottles (clear ones) --

 

We are getting some melt this weekend (but not fast enough for my taste) --

My stone bunny doesn't look too happy, does he?

Looks like I timed my knee surgery rather perfectly; no biking for me right now, knee or no.