"22 Amazing Photos of the Ontario Ice Storm"

[james_davis_nicoll]

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

One winter when I was at William and Mary, Williamsburg got a combined snow/ice storm with several inches of snow, followed by a crust of freezing rain like this one on top of the lumpy snow.

The ice was thick enough that you couldn't step through it (though it would have been a hazard to ankles if you could). It became literally impossible to walk upright in Williamsburg, and driving wasn't a good idea either. People were getting around by crawling on all fours.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

That's a common weather pattern here around DC too -- ice-snow-ice, snow-ice, snow-ice-snow; winter precipitation is always an adventure.

[iayork.livejournal.com]

I remember one like that when I was a kid, on a farm near Ottawa. Ice thick enough to skate on, on top of two feet of snow. The snow drifts were high enough that we could hop over the fences, so we could literally skate for miles.

For kids, it was unbelievable fun. It must have been a nightmare for the adults.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

That's normally how our relatively rare snows here near Seattle work, too. I think of it as an ice sandwich.

I used to live in the Midwest and Colorado and drove on snow there without any more than the usual precautions. When it snows here I'm terrified to drive.