Broken tree limbs littered the streets of Portland today, after last night's ice storm. Because I took a vaca day, I had the luxury of sleeping in while others were trying to de-ice and navigate the slick streets. Instead I waited until the sun peeked out around 1:30 to head out and try to do some errands. Normally, I would walk, but because the roads were in better shape than the sidewalks, I chipped my car out of a block of ice and drove.

A number of the stop lights along Cumberland Avenue were dead, and stop signs took their place.

Classes were canceled for the day at Portland High.

Longfellow Square sparkled with a covering of ice.

This poor tree outside Urban Hardware was snapped in half.

The birches in front of the Portland Museum of Art were bent and a little broken.

And even though the power was working fine at my house (just two blocks away), Whole Foods had locked its door citing a lack of electric juice.