Help! My trees were iced over!

[gtrplayer]

I have a row of about 12 Japanese Ligustrums. They are about 3 years old and close to 15 feet high.

I live in San Antonio TX where the climate is typically warm. As you may know we had a terrible nasty winter storm come through last week. It coated EVERYTHING with ice!

The tree leaves and branches were coated with a 1/4" layer of ice. This no doubt weighted all the branches down to where they were bent clear over touching the ground! It lasted about 2 days and then melted.

Now the branches are back up, but they are all spraweled out and not straight up at all.... Second picture to follow..

What should I do at this point if anything???

[gtrplayer]

Another picture

[gtrplayer]

And today's pic... they used to be all nice and straight up, but as I said, now they are all spaweled out. Although, this could be good eventually right? My take would be to leave them alone until spring and then trim them up real good and shape them how I want them... would this be the right thing to do?

Or should I somehow tie them up??

Thanks!

[gtrplayer]

Again... today... after the freeze

[4seasons]

I would just leave them alone. We had an ice storm a few years ago and any tree that didn't break off straighten on its own.

[Fine Edge]

See what happens when Spring rolls around. Whatever limbs don't straighten on their own, give them a good trimming, which is what I would probably do anyway.