Thursday, December 20, 2007
Sunshine's Sister-In-Law's Ice Storm '07 Wedding
---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.
Our carport looked like an icy jail. It was beautiful.
-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. While I sat in front of this iMac G4, that night, I could hear the fire crackers going off all night - tree limbs breaking under the pressure of the icy build-up. This is being written 2 weeks after the ice storm, and we still have 10,000 people without electricity across Oklahoma.
View over the station wagon.
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.
This is the old tree next to our house. I made a wooden pad in it, so the kids could climb up and sit down. Even the limbs suffered. Our front patio had limbs almost touching the ground, yet the huge mother limb didn't break. Pretty awesome. Over 200,000 people were knocked out of electricity.
You can see the limbs on the other side of the road broken off or bending with the weight of the tree. The flag is a Made In China flag.
Shrubs didn't fair well either, though we can still go out and find some pears worthy of eating.
Hope everyone has a better New Year than this one. We need rain in Alabama, South Carolina, and other eastern points. Some of our roads, locally still impassable from the heavy rains, earlier this fall.
Finally, Darrin's best friend, Bart, and his family have moved back to Oklahoma via Chicago, California, and Tennessee. Welcome home Bart! We expect to see your kids at our house!
---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.
Our carport looked like an icy jail. It was beautiful.
-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. While I sat in front of this iMac G4, that night, I could hear the fire crackers going off all night - tree limbs breaking under the pressure of the icy build-up. This is being written 2 weeks after the ice storm, and we still have 10,000 people without electricity across Oklahoma.
View over the station wagon.
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.
This is the old tree next to our house. I made a wooden pad in it, so the kids could climb up and sit down. Even the limbs suffered. Our front patio had limbs almost touching the ground, yet the huge mother limb didn't break. Pretty awesome. Over 200,000 people were knocked out of electricity.
You can see the limbs on the other side of the road broken off or bending with the weight of the tree. The flag is a Made In China flag.
Shrubs didn't fair well either, though we can still go out and find some pears worthy of eating.
Other pictures around the house "Looking Out Our Back Door!"
Hope everyone has a better New Year than this one. We need rain in Alabama, South Carolina, and other eastern points. Some of our roads, locally still impassable from the heavy rains, earlier this fall.
Finally, Darrin's best friend, Bart, and his family have moved back to Oklahoma via Chicago, California, and Tennessee. Welcome home Bart! We expect to see your kids at our house!
# posted by Papa Dale @ 10:31 AM 
