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On Thursday night we had a big ice storm which knocked out power to over 1 million people in New England. A state of emergency was declared in Massachusetts, Maine, New York and right here in New Hampshire.

Luckily our apartment was one of the only parts of our town to retain power, however we lost our Cable TV, Internet and telephone service from Friday morning until Sunday evening (a few hours ago). The power losses were caused by heavy trees coming down under the sheer weight of the ice. As I type, there are still 200,000 homes in New Hampshire without power. More than 500 power crews have lent support to New Hampshire from other states as well as Canada.

We were very lucky to have kept our power as I can only imagine what a struggle it would have been without it! We had a drive around and most of the traffic lights were out and pretty much every business was closed throughout the weekend. The privileged few with generators managed to stay open during the blackout.

Here are a few pictures of the ice outside our apartment. I didn’t dare venture out any further as the icy conditions made it very hard to keep me footing: