All over the local news about the 25th anniversary. We were pretty lucky, we were on a main feed line to Waldo County so power was on and off constantly for weeks but every day we had enough to heat the house and save the food and beer. Our neighbor 150 feet away was almost a month without power. I let him run a couple cords from our place to his. 25th Anniversary of the Devastating 1998 Ice Storm in the Northeast We can still see the tree damage from this event even considering how many were either broken or just cut down. Who else was affected by this mess?
Wife and I were in Arizona when that happened but it was all over the news. We had something like that in MI during the 70's and more (but not as severe) even in the 50's and 60's.
I talk about that in my environmental science class, especially within the Hubbard Brook experimental forest. The following spring and summer saw much more nitrogen in the water due to the damaged/dead trees not taking up as many nutrients.
It was quite a week back then for us too. We were at the old farm in Avon and without power for 5 days. A 2" thick ice sheet eventually covered everything. (heavy) It was impressive. Our big barn 40'x50' had that 2" thick ice sheet on it. The highest roof side (22' eaves) let go one day and it all slid off making a 50' long x 6' high pile of ice chunks under the eave... along with hundreds of pieces exploding down the field to the treeline, 300' away. In the spring, we found evidence of the forces at work when it all hit the solid frozen ground. That ice made a perfect 50' long trench about a foot deep... where the edge of the ice hit. I know I have pics of the mess somewhere, in all of our plastic totes filled with those farm years. Some day I'll dig it all out.
Yup I remember got some great pics.. it hit us hard; with no power. I showered and shaved at work for a week!
We were in Hampden then. Took the wife to her sisters because they had a wood stove and a gas cook stove, we had nothing but a single wide house trailer. Good thing I took her, when I got back a good sized birch was laying where my truck was parked. That was the first bad day, a couple days into it all. I just went through Avon this morning, had to make the Rangeley trip today!
Hard to say what damage is from what… too many tornadoes, ice, blizzard etc, all seems to run together
I was a teenager in Arkansas when that storm hit. I was at the movie theater with a gang of friends. We were horsing around on the ice in the parking lot. I managed to get running full speed somehow and put the brakes on to slide on the ice. I was headed right for a small tree probably about 4” diameter at the base. I hit it and it broke in half. No damage to me. I got labeled tree crusher the rest of the night. There was another storm in the mid to late 70s. I can’t remember the year exactly I was just a kid. I went to my neighbor friends house that morning since school was canceled. We wanted to check on his rabbits. I looked up at the branches over the hutch and there was a sparrow perched on a branch perfectly covered in ice. As a kid it just all seemed so surreal.
