Freezing Rain

[Martin]

Its basicly rain that freezes on impact. Leaves everything covered in a layer of ice - cars, houses, plants everything.

Took a few pics today, here that turned out nicely.
http://individual.utoronto.ca/marty/ice_0014.jpg

 

[spunkz]

cool

 

[BW86]

I hate freezing rain :Q

 

[dighn]

holy shlt

more pics!!!

my parents told me about it (they used to live in ottawa) but i never saw it personally

 

[mwtgg]

Nice pic, what camera?

 

[UNCjigga]

Man that ish can get dangerous. A few years ago we had a really bad ice storm that downed power lines and cut power to some folks for over 2 weeks. I had some really good pics of it...trees all weighed down and leaning over cars, etc.

 

[blodhi74]

a couple of years ago we had a bad one .... I scraped my car but could not get out of the parking lot of my apartment since the exit was on an incline

 

[Martin]

here's two more
http://individual.utoronto.ca/marty/ice_0004.jpg
http://individual.utoronto.ca/marty/ice_0012.jpg

Taken with an A60.

 

[Colt45]

Freezing ice is teh evil.

I like when trees get the 1/2" frost on them though, looks cool

 

[Bateluer]

When I worked the night shift at Kohls, we had an ice storm kinda like that, except it included almost 3 feet of snow. Hehe, it was fun shoveling out my car, banging off the ice, then sitting in the car while it heated up, oy, then driving him . . . before the plows were out. Fun.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: Jigga
Man that ish can get dangerous. A few years ago we had a really bad ice storm that downed power lines and cut power to some folks for over 2 weeks. I had some really good pics of it...trees all weighed down and leaning over cars, etc.

98, right? Some parts of quebec and ontario were also badly hit, thankfully not here.

 

[arcas]

A little freezing rain might be pretty, especially if the sun is shining, but it quickly turns sour as ice accumulates. We've had 3 significant ice storms since Feb 2003: 1.75 inches, 0.75 inches and last night we got around 0.5 inches.

As you can imagine, 1.75 inches of ice weighs a lot and can do enormous damage. Large chunks of the city were powerless for a week, some didn't get power for 2 weeks. In the dead of winter. Crews were still cleaning up the mess in August 2003.

Here's what my yard looked like that morning:
side yard
front yard
front yard

One of the benefits of the last 2 ice storms was that it tended to weed out the weaker trees and limbs because I didn't notice much damage at all from last night's storm.

Here's what it looked like out my windows this morning:
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Sorry 'bout the image quality. It was colder than a witch's booty so I wasn't about to open the window to get a clearer image

 

[sharkeeper]

1998 Storm

That one was very bad.

Cheers!

 

[SearchMaster]

I live on Lake Lanier just north of Atlanta, so there are a LOT of pine trees surrounding the lake on Army Corps property. We had a freezing rain storm a few years ago, and I woke up in the middle of the night and thought our neighbor was shooting off his AK (don't ask) again...then realized it was the pine branches cracking and splitting all around us. There were several loud cracks per second for about a half an hour. We ended up with about 20 trees down in plain sight in a small area, I'm sure there were several more in the thicker wooded regions. The power was out for several days and we were some of the more fortunate ones in the area.

 

[tami]

really nice pics

 

[LeetViet]

Very nice pictures. Is there any quality different between the A60 and the A75?

 

[EngenZerO]

here are some pics from earlier today in central ohio... i did not have power from 2am last night till around 8pm today... it kinda sucked...

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[Mo0o]

wow cool

 

[Kalvin00]

Originally posted by: EngenZerO
here are some pics from earlier today in central ohio... i did not have power from 2am last night till around 8pm today... it kinda sucked...

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Wow, wonderful pics. :thumbsup:

 

[Martin]

here's a night shot as well. Didn't turn out as well as I thought it would

http://individual.utoronto.ca/marty/ice_0025.jpg

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: EngenZerO
here are some pics from earlier today in central ohio... i did not have power from 2am last night till around 8pm today... it kinda sucked...

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COOL!

 

[EngenZerO]

here are some more shots...

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[cronos]

that's a pretty picture.

 

[Evadman]

When I was 12/13 we got about 2" of freezing rain here in chicago after a fresh snow. I remember it so vividly. Me and my brother put on our ice skates and went icescating in the street, and all over a park, including up and down the sleeding hill. It was so freaky ice skating on a hill.

 

[BHeemsoth]

Originally posted by: LeetViet
Very nice pictures. Is there any quality different between the A60 and the A75?

a75 is 3.2mp a60 is 2.

Those are great pics for an a60. I wish I still had my A40.

Hopefully will be unwrapping an a95 on saturday though.