On Wednesday evening, 4Dec2002, North Carolina had its worst ice storm in decades. The snow started around 2pm, but the killer was the heavy ice rain that fell until midnight, coating everything in a thick layer of ice, causing trees to snap and power lines to fall. More than 2 million people in the Carolinas were without power; I didn't get my power back for almost a week.
In the days after the storm, I walked around the 54 park-n-ride behind my condo, and around campus, taking pictures of the beautiful icicles that dangled everywhere I looked.