Sentence 1: One winter day, the roads were covered in ice. 
 Sentence 3: My family was trapped in our house for days 
 Sentence 4:  We lived for a while until the roads were cleared 
 Sentence 5:  After the storm, we went back to business as usual 
 Option 1: The roads were blocked because of an ice storm. 
 Option 2: The snow got so bad that roads were blocked.