Show storm brings inches of moisture in monticello and surrounding vicinity the wettest storm in the last two years occurred sunday and left monticello looking like a sheet of ice saturday was cloudy with a cold mist in the air but there was not enough moisture to measure rain began falling during the night and from six six pm pan saturday to 6 rm pm sunday 1 25 inches of precipitation was measured by the weather reporter the storm was unusual in many ways so much moisture falling in the form of rain on the day of december is very unusual for monticello the month of december had been such a cold month until the last week that the rain was really unexpected the rain was followed by about an inch and one halt half of snow sunday night more snow fell but melted as fast as it hit the ground the snow bein being 9 heavy and wet stuck to whatever object it c contacted ont acted first with the result that many light wires and telephone wires became so weighted by the snow and ice that they were dragging the ground monday morning several telephone poles were broken completely off at the base and were lying on the ground w with it h bro broken k en wires tra trailing them most of the wires which were not actually down were badly sagging under the weight of ice and snow which they carried each house and tree was also plastered on the south side with a generous layer of ice and snow and even the clothes lines in town were sagging electric power was 0 off ff and telephone service was disrupted |