Day 7 of Ice Storm "Fern" (1-24 2026 thru 1-30-26)

A few more ice storm "Fern" pictures that hubby made four days ago while he was out feeding the cats and birds. These are just in ours and my mom's yards.

Today is day seven and many people all around us and in the county are suffering. They still have no electricity, and even those with some form of heat are running out of fuel, food, etc., and some have water pipes frozen and/or busted. Our county in Tennessee was one of the hardest hit, but neighboring counties and states are still trying to dig out also. Electric company people are working as fast and hard as they can to restore electricity, and people who are able are helping cut and clear away trees/limbs from roads and driveways. Warming shelters with places for hot meals, hot showers, water, etc., have been set up in various locations. Some of the ice has melted off the trees, lines, and roofs, but the ground and roads are still very slick, and the temps are still frigid.

The weather people are forecasting more extremely cold weather and possibly more snow from today through the weekend. Please pray for all the people working out in these conditions trying to help other people get back to some level of normalcy, whatever that is. 

The last picture is of a large tree limb that has fallen on top of my mom's house. Nobody lives in the house since she passed, but it's the house I grew up in since I was two years old, and I'm just praying that it didn't put a hole in the roof.

We were going to take our side by side out to the old homeplace today and check all the tree damage, but since we have to drive up a little hill, and it's an extension of our driveway, which is still solid ice, we've decided not to risk it. We know from pictures we've seen all around us that we have a lot of trees down, but that's minor, compared to peoples' homes and livelihood. 

Hubby did get the limbs cleared out of the driveway down to the main road day before yesterday, but his truck barely made a dent on the ice when he drove it back and forth over it down to the main road yesterday. I can barely walk in the house, so I have not even tried to go outside yet. Thankfully, we still have what we need and nowhere we have to be for a few days, so we are ok.

There will be a lot of tree damage to clean up when it warms up, but we are so grateful that none of it fell on our house or car. We are also grateful that our niece and nephew have checked on us and offered to bring us anything we need, although it would have to be a matter of life or death before we asked them to get out on these treacherous roads. 

Pray for all who are still trapped in "Fern's" ice, struggling to get their lives back, and there are many, scattered over multiple states.