"Is your photo a South Carolina sky? It is awesome." Afraid it is was one snagged from Mr. Google, Just..:)) The title is Hand of God.....
We don't get much severe weather on this side of South Carolina. Most fronts flow northeast from Augusta, Georgia toward Columbia, SC, and we are positioned in Barnwell, SC southeast of Augusta. They thus don't usually reach us...if snowflakes appear, it is an exciting event - and if a half inch *briefly* coats every few years, the town goes nuts!!
Two years ago there was a terrible, terrible ICE storm, however, but it began exactly one mile above us, stretching upward for several counties from there.
With many tree farms with pines in addition to natural ones growing, there were snapped limbs all over, many blocking the two-lane highway. The sounds were heard here, like rifle shots...
We don't have pines on our lot - two huge pecan trees, a gum tree, a pear tree, three small and two large dogwood trees - and one no one seems to know the name of, with four joined trunks branching out with the first Spring Leafy Green growth, and first leaves to fall - great for grandchildren to climb..:))
I got to tell you I would gladly have shared a few inches of snow with you. We are semi rural and have a fairly long drive way, and thus took roughly 6 hours of shoveling to get to our one car wide drive.
My son at Clemson was hoping for one of those rare snow falls as he is totally amused at the southern reaction. He has also said that he misses our thunderstorms and the house shaking claps of thunder we often get.
I remember that ice storm. I have been through a couple of them myself here. The last one took close to twenty pick-up loads of branches to clean up out of my yard.
On the second morning of no electricity, I was on the deck making coffee on the grill and up pulls a truck with man and wife hired to clear limbs from electrical lines. The gal sees me on the deck and cheerfully calls out to me "do you have power"? Here I am, no electricity, making coffee outside in frigid temp, after having spent the night monitoring my fire in the fireplace insert, so at least the pipes won't freeze. There was no way I had checked the mirror that morning and to me anybody with half a brain could have seen I did not look like I had power.
I called back to her and said "do I look like I have power"? A few days later they were back as I told them they could deposit their loads of chopped limbs in a heap near my garden, and the gal tells me that she was still laughing over my reaction to her question of "do you have power".