Unseasonal snow and freezing rain led to an ice storm in central North Carolina. This coated the trees and power lines with a quarter to a half inch of ice, which caused power outages for about 1.5 million people (including me, for five days), and brought down trees and branches all over the city. Thankfully Duke has all its power lines underground, so we were able to camp out in the Biology Department overnight. Unless a tree limb fell on your car (poor Catarina) it was mildly inconvenient and spectacularly beautiful.
			This is what I saw from my front yard in the morning. Not many folks driving in today. And I suspect the firewood prices will go through the floor this winter.
			The trees clattered and jingled when you brushed them. Some of the pines were top-heavy and bowed completely to the ground. All night I heard the crash of branches onto my roof.
East Campus, deserted and white. The Baldwin Dome seemed to be shedding great sheets of ice.
			My bike was completely encased when I got to the department. This is my archetypal "bike covered with ice on the cover of an undergraduate poetry magazine" shot.