In a message dated 11/18/2002 1:04:52 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > It's 30 here with freezing rain. > All the trees are frozen and while it is a pretty sight the weight is > really > pulling some of them down. > Your Northeaster is making the Colorado papers . . . the third page of this morning's Colorado Springs Gazette has a picture of Deerfield, MA (an area that my husband knows quite well and I know fairly well) under ice. I have a lot of memories of ice storms in the Northeast (which we practically never get here), with forests looking like Fairyland in the sunlight and tree branches and wires coming down from the weight. Out here (probably because of the elevation -- about 7,000 feet) we get snow when the temperature is in the 30s and even in the 40s, so ice-storm conditions practically never exist. We do get heavy fogs that freeze onto the trees in delicate shapes, showing frost needles and things like that. A few weeks ago we had those conditions twice, and I went through a couple of rolls of film capturing the results. Doris (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr