Around eastern Iowa, the trees have resembled something you'd see on a frozen planet or perhaps on a Bob Ross painting, the last few foggy mornings. It's called 'Rime Icing." What is it?
Dictionary.com defines it as:
an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object...
About three of every four trees in the right-of-way throughout the city were impacted by the August 10 derecho. The city has started to assess them, one by one.