Robert Miller: The science and power behind ice storms FacebookTwitterEmail Last week, while much of the state got rained on, I got iced. I live on the northeast edge of Litchfield County. In my town, and the towns nearby, it was cold enough at ground level that the rain froze when it fell on tree limbs, railings and clotheslines. The birches in my yard were suitably bent. A lot of this had to do with elevation and cold pockets of air — when I drove east, downhill, the ice was a no-show. Nor did the rain — which forecasters first thought might glaze larger parts of Fairfield and Litchfield counties — freeze much of anything there.