Down the Road

Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: weather

  • Fog on the Ohio River Canon PowerShot S80 2009

  • What the ice storm could have taught me about myself

    What a great day, walking through the park with my camera after the ice storm! It was 1990. I was 23 and didn’t know myself yet. Who does at 23? College was about a year behind me; I had gone to work. Trying to figure out what it meant to be an adult, I mimicked what I saw growing…

  • Snow-covered Caddy Palm Pre 2010

  • Vintage TV: 1970s weather forecasts

    I watched a lot of TV news during the recent ice storm so I could catch the weather forecasts. Local stations went all out during this storm with expanded and extra newscasts. Reporters were live all over the city showing what it looked like outside, in case our living-room windows were malfunctioning and we couldn’t…

  • Scenes from the ice storm

    As last week began, the weather forecast called for two ice storms in as many days. It looked like it could be very serious – up to an inch and a half of ice, which would cause trees to fall and power lines to snap. The electric companies warned that if the worst happened, power could…