Well, it's finally gotten cold enough to start sleeting instead of 
raining, so hopefully that's the end of the ice accumulation in the trees. 
Hopefully.  That's the good news.  Bad news is that the wind is due to 
pick up.  Good news is, power hasn't had a significant flicker in a few 
hours.

Our street looks rather like the fringes of a tornado path, except that 
the damage is pretty much limited to the trees.  And anything they fell 
on.  Pretty impressive.  I might have pictures in the morning, provided 
the trees haven't fallen on us by then.  So far, the elm out front has 
dropped probably half its branches into the yard (the other half is 
looming over our front porch, and if it doesn't come down on us tonight I 
*will* have the city take it out), and the hackberry on the side is pretty 
much fine (since half looms over our entire *house* and half over the 
neighbors, this is good).

(For the record:  Kansas in general may not be known for trees, but 
Wichita sits in a big river basin, and we're maybe a quarter mile from the 
river, so in the immediate area we got lots.  Er, *had* lots.  Tomorrow, 
not so much.)

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