Having managed to retain all the creature comforts of modernity, namely power, heat, Internet (thoughts go out to my neighbors without) I can view this ice storm through a more pleasant lense. I took a stroll through the neighborhood and must say the combo of white ground and scintillating trees crackling in the wind presents one of the more novel and beautiful winter scenes I've seen in recent years. That said, there is a lot of damage around here. The birches are all weeping and bent with ice, lots of trees down or liberated of substantial limbs and some, like the attached image, look like a giant clumsily stepped on them. A beautiful winter scene and a silver lining for this winter without a doubt, but certainly will not shift my leery stance towards ice storms.