Ice Storms are sure beautiful, but if you are not prepared they can be the pits. We were caught in this one in January and we were not prepared. Our house was twenty degrees and I had to keep getting into our car to warm up with the kiddos. We had a generator but if you have all electric they are useless. It reeally hit us hard that you have to be prepared. We got ourselves propane heaters and now we have a fireplace in our new house that will keep us warm.