Gregory Todd Williams

I haven’t written in a while, being busy with the end of the semester and what ended up being a monster ice storm. Last Thursday, after taking some pictures of our awesomely lighted Christmas tree in the front yard (which at this point had icicles on it), things started to get bad.

The first problem was a leak in the living room ceiling. It wasn’t tons of water, but it was enough to be really stressful as the first major problem to come up with the new house. It was too late to call anyone, so we went to bed intending to call a roofer first thing in the morning.

As we went to bed, the wind was getting strong, and the ice just kept accumulating. We saw what we thought might be lightning out the window, but it turned out to be all the transformers blowing on the electric lines behind the house. Then came the crashing. Trees were losing branches or simply falling down left and right. Looking around town the next morning, you’d think there had never been an ice storm here before. There are areas of town where half the trees fell over or were uprooted and had to be cut down.

And that’s what happened to our neighbors tree. About half the tree fell over, leaving the neighbors yard mostly untouched but destroying a section of our fence and taking electric, phone, and cable lines down with it.

I’m on my way out of town for the holidays, but as I write this, the house still doesn’t have heat or power, and there’s no real indication when they might return.