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nature's quiet apocalypse, wrapping the world in glass before snapping it in half
means A weather event in which freezing rain coats everything—trees, wires, roads—in a thick, heavy layer of ice, often causing widespread damage and power loss.
from A transparent compound of two old Germanic words: "ice," from Old English "īs," and "storm," from Old English "storm"—both with deep roots across the Germanic languages (German "Eis" and "Sturm" are close cousins). The pairing as a single weather term is far younger, an American coinage that grew common as electrified, wired towns discovered just how much damage glazed-over branches and snapped power lines could do.
- weight gain
- Half-inch ice adds 500 pounds to power lines
- silent killer
- No wind, no thunder, just trees exploding
- freezing rain
- Rain falls liquid, freezes instantly on contact
- 1998 disaster
- Quebec storm left millions dark for weeks
- glaze ice
- The clear, heavy coating engineers fear most