1.   Huge trees had snapped like matchsticks in the hurricane-force winds.

2.   Recreational vehicles were scattered and trees snapped.

3.   Six months later, another tree simply snapped, a chunk crashing to the ground in the middle of the day.

4.   Trees snapped and rolled like tumbleweeds across their six acres.

5.   At Hot Springs, magnolia trees snapped beneath an inch of ice and people filled bottles with water at public taps.

6.   In Perry, decades-old elm and pecan trees snapped under the coating of ice and littered the streets.