I spent Christmas of ‘98 in the dark due to an ice storm. I was lucky to be without power for only 5 days. Some sections of town waited 3 weeks to get it back on.
It was like the one you mentioned - - ruined nearly every tree in town.
A couple of the storm chasers’ videos looked about the same.
What a horrible way to spend Christmas...unless you had lots of candles to make it festive. How did you keep warm?