After the January 2017 Ice Storm

 

A big winter storm hit most of Nebraska and parts of the midwest on the weekend of January 14, 2017 coating everything in layer of ice. The freezing rain and drizzle lasted for most of three days shutting down events and closing schools even after the Monday Martin Luther King holiday. I went out at dawn on the 17th after the storm had passed but while it was still brisk and cold to see what the prairie looked like…