We had one winter where a day or two before Christmas we had ice rain, asn't quite cold enough higher up for snow so what came down was basically ice or nearly frozen water which froze when it landed on anything. It sounded like a war that night as trees and power lines were falling down. People had to bug out to hotels for as long as a week due to no power. I've moved to a suburb now and the power lines directly to my house are underground so its a bit better but were still without power in the area often.