Thanks for the prayers for everyone ((Eskie)). Luckily we don't have ice but the snow is extremely heavy. ATM the individual flakes are more like heavy round balls. For the schools to actually close here, there has to be alot of snow lol. I agree, it's the ice storm that's the worst. I remember 9 yrs ago at this time, we had an ice storm and the power went out. My youngest was a baby, so we had to go sleep in a hotel. If she was older, we all could have bundled up, but she was premature, so we couldn't take chances.