We haven't had ice... that was the December wind storm. Gusts of 60-70 in this area.... we think. A lot of big trees came out of the ground... in some areas 25% of the trees came down.
We had a big windstorm in NJ one night. It had been raining heavily for several days before that. We had a spruce tree in our front yard that must have been over 20' tall. I walked by the front window that next morning, and saw it. I came back through the room a hour later, and that sucker was flat on the ground!! The roots obviously worked loose during the night, and it had begun to fall, only I didn't notice it. The root system on that thing was wide, but not that deep, and the entire thing just came up out of the ground.