The place looked amazing when the sun would come out more. I was usually in the truck then and have to get out and find a good shot, only for it to go back behind a cloud. When it is doing that it is really messing with your exposure setting.

I think a person with a zoom lens and some time on their hands could get a lot of crashing branches like this one. They tend to give you some advanced warning. They'll sit there and creak and stop, creak and stop.....then pow crash. I just happened to be standing out of the truck with the zoom looking at some perspectives waiting on the sun to come back out. It didn't really give a long creaking warning on this one. I had just enough time to turn around shoot one, back out quickly and snap this one. No time to mess with focus or anything else. I got another one later at a house, but not as sharp.

Confliction...or not.

I'm now in go home mode, taking one last road north before getting on the interstate again. This road sucked amazingly bad in spots. I wish I had gotten some shots of the one area I could barely get through, which went on for a good bit really badly. I stopped and was going to get out and get some shots but kept hearing some truck winding up somewhere nearby. I figured I'd get out to take the shot and it would come down the hill and one of us would have to back up forever and a day through what was hard to get through going forward, let along backward.

A couple times I had to go under power lines which I wasn't terribly sure were going to miss the antenna. I was like, well I hope that's not live and if it is I miss it.

The only reason I took these shots here is because there was a yard here with a pull in thing. Most sections of crap like this you just had no where to stop and get out. You also wanted to get through them quickly before a car came from the other direction.

That might have been the one power line I drove under, barely missing the antenna. It has to be one of them as I know I had to drive under that. Then I drove home. I could only hang around so long, or the drive back would just be that much harder, already sleepy as hell. Sun was pissing me off anyway, taking a year to really come out. It was warming some now too and the ice showering was getting old. It's sad to think about how long folks down there will have no power. This type of icing covered an extremely large area from eastern OK, through northern AR on northeast. At least it's not bitterly cold there at the moment. May not be for a while too. But still, seeing as much damage in just that one city, it's mind boggling how much work there will be to pick it all up. These ice storms seem to be "spreading the wealth" the last few years, making sure to screw up new areas.