Beautiful pics Chris, I hope that the semps are ok. I'm sad to hear of all those broken trees. Was there much damage done at your parents place?
I remember going for a new years day drive a couple of years ago. We headed up towards the mountains and found that there had been a freezing fog storm the night before, it looked amazing. I took some of my best ever photo's that day. Not because my photography skills are great, but everything was so beautiful it was impossible to take a bad shot!