Toronto Gets Hit

We were told for a couple of days that we would get rain, ice and snow. We did not get any snow yet, but plenty of rain and last night freezing rain. The most beautiful and most destructive is freezing rain.

Freezing rain starts out 2000 or 3000 feet up in warm air, thus comes down as relatively warm water. As it falls it cools but not enough to become ice so it lands as water, coats everything and freezes.

The result is heavy limbs on all trees. The tree cannot support the extra weight and limbs break off. Some of these limbs bring down hydro wires some only destroy cars.

As of now Toronto has 250,000 homes without power. The worst may be yet to come. Later this
afternoon we expect heavy winds.

So far we have kept our power, but my son and daughter in law are without. We have offer them room here but no one has moved in yet.

I only have one picture taken out our kitchen door. It is too slippery too go walking.