Usually, a day off of school is a good thing. But it’s not so great today. Look what happened to my friend Adrian’s house.

The part of the tree that isn’t on their house is in the street, blocking traffic on that side of the house.

On the other side of the house, some neighbors lost their car to yet another oak tree. I think we’re going to lose a bunch of big limbs off our biggest oak tree, too — the ice is weighing them down until they are almost touching the ground, and you can hear the cracking noise as the limbs break.

But some of the ice looks pretty cool. Too bad that what looks so pretty will kill the plants and trees.

We bought our Christmas tree yesterday before the storm, so we will stay indoors and decorate that today. We have firewood and marshmallows, so it may be a pretty good day if the weather doesn’t get worse. Hope all my friends are safe and warm!