9.   Winter is slowly winding down here on the east coast. Snow storms are being replaced by rain storms, and this week for a change we were greeted with back to back freezing rain events which left quite a heavy coating of glitter all across town.

8.   Ice on our vehicles, houses & power lines was about 5/8" thick which could be quite a burden to remove. Leaving our vehicles running with heat on high for a half hour helped a lot in this regard.

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5.   Once loosened by heat from the vehicle, ice came off in sheets simply by opening and closing the doors. 

4.   I expected widespread power outages but fortunately the ice was not accompanied by wind. We lost our power for about an hour and a half mid-morning so I finally got a chance to try running the house on my 3500watt backup generator. The generator is connected to a proper generator panel which powers up certain areas of the house including our well pump, basement sewage pump, freezers/fridges, a bunch of lights and TV/internet.

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1.   It could certainly have been a lot worse, thankfully it wasn't with everything else going on in the world this year. It was definitely the most freezing rain build-up I've experienced in a very long time!

Cheers, MIKE

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