Well, Ken, I gotta agree with you. Ice storms are not fun at all. We went through one back in 1995 that was really bad. We got a spell of cold weather (sub zero in fact), and then some warming followed by rain followed by more cold. And, yeah, all that rain froze just like it did with you guys out in OK. Nasty stuff.

I went to Portsmouth, NH for work one week, we drove up. ON the way back, we were on the edges of a real nasty storm that was dropping snow pretty heavily. We decided to stop northwest of New York City, oh about 50 or so miles out of town. We stayed at a hotel that had a long sloping driveway and a large parking lot out back.

In the morning, I went out to the van and saw that the van was completely covered in a layer of ice about a quarter inch thick. It looked neat, but I wasn't sure if we were going to be able to do anything for a while. Well, I thumped the side of the van with my fist and the ice fell off like someone dropped a curtain or something. It all just shattered and fell to the ground. Pretty neat. Ok, now we had to get out of that parking lot, which, as I said, was sloping.. in this case, because we climbed up the slope to get in, we now had to navigate it down to get out.

I had one of the guys walk.. slide.. down the slope to watch for incoming traffic. I backed out of the parking place, and started forward. Well, the van slid down the slope, and as it turns out, the slope had a slight angle to the right which was something like that of a raceway, so the van followed the slope and slowly slid down the drive and to to the road and stopped. Wphew. We managed to drive home after that but the drive was pretty bad along the highway. What a mess.. and that was an ice storm along the coast where inland, it was mostly snow.

It's still raining, but more heavily now. And, this is supposed to turn to snow soon. It will be quite a mess, that's for sure.

CGr.