REAL ICE WEDDING - December 2007
------Oklahoma. As the rain started to pour and sleet combined, we called and Lawton was in the clear, so, ... Marcella and I took a box full of cameras and started south. We knew we would be late.
------ The rain and sleet made the going slow and when we arrived, they had already taken the pictures of the groomsmen. Now days, photographing a wedding costs nothing. Everyone has digitals and everyone gets in the action. 5 years ago, I was the only one doing anything of significance with digitals around here, but those times are gone. For our own daughter's wedding, a hired photographer was on hand. With this wedding, they had asked to have pictures taken BEFORE the wedding. For me, guaranteeing that I can be any place at 12, is pushing the envelope. We left at 11:30, since I didn't go to sleep until 6:00 AM.
------We spotted Holli and Vinh as we left and asked them to take pictures. The cake had already been cut, so I am hoping that we will get one of the pictures taken for the DVD that Marcella will be making.
------Once we were home, I couldn't sleep and I was on the computer. The lights went out at 1 PM and then came back on. 15 minutes, it went out completely, for 2 days, and we were lucky. This is being written 2 weeks after the ice storm, and we still have 100,000 people without electricity across Oklahoma.
------It was eery to the popping through out the night. It sounded like fire crackers, but what it was, was limbs breaking, ... snapping, many falling to the ground. The next morning, we woke up to "Godly" trimmed trees, with many blocking the roads. I didn't drive anywhere to take pictures, since the trees around our house easily characterized the storm itself, I just had to take pictures around here.
PICTURES
Under our car patio!
Across the street from our house!
The limbs take their place on the road in front of our house.
Beside our house.
Shrubs
Under our car patio!
Across the street from our house!
The limbs take their place on the road in front of our house.
Beside our house.
Shrubs
------Here is a good example of the broken limbs. Look carefully to see the limbs snapped by the power of the weight of frozen water.
------ Of course, when I tried starting the Old Station Wagon, the thing wouldn't start. Oh well, I will start it whenever I need it. Probably battery contacts.
-Dale Hill