The Ice Storm

Nonfiction Short Story

We Live in a Time Collectively, in which we are experiencing the most instability in our weather patterns in recorded history; We live in a time in which the Earth has shifted on its axis, and the polar ice caps are melting. WEATHER is the biggest threat to civilization we will ever face. We can fight everything else, but we can't fight nature.

This Narrative Recreates the 2000 Ice Storm:

Only once in a lifetime do we see storms of such power and significance that we know we have seen Nature’s Rage up close. I heard my great uncle speak of the notorious Blizzard of 1949, which was so severe that people froze before they could return home from work or school;. He told it with passion because he remembered it, relating how quickly it paralyzed travel and communication, how quickly it killed. I was a child, so as children do, I didn’t really get it. You must see some things for yourself. In the year 2000, I got that chance, when the greatest Ice Storm of my Lifetime struck.


Nonfiction Narrative Short Story of an Unforgettable Storm told by Sara Niles

The deadly forces of nature unleashed an unseasonable severe onslaught of ice and freezing temperatures upon a small town during the Christmas holidays in Southern Oklahoma in the year 2000. Sara Niles was working for a domestic violence agency, and the domestic violence shelter was full.