April Fools'?

Oh, how I wish this was a joke.  Maybe it is, but it's one Mother Nature is having on us!

And that's 7.9 inches in Worcester, in case anyone was wondering. . .

The Ice Storm - December 12, 2008

Having lain awake listening to branches (and the occasional tree) drop all night, I was not, when daylight came, prepared to face a lack of electricity and a dog who was too spooked to go outside. It was eerily silent except for the occasional groan of a tree bending underneath its unusual burden, the pop and crash of a branch detaching and descending from its trunk, or the slithering of ice to the ground. The kids and I had a quiet morning by the fire, and then we went out to help DH start clearing away the debris from both the front and back yards. When darkness set in at about 4:30, with the lighting of candles arrived fears and a few tears, but when pizza was delivered a short time later by the person we have now deemed Superpizzaguy, the lights magically turned back on and all was well.