Well, after six days without, the electricity is on again here. And we've got internet (their stuff was knocked out too).
That was a lot of snow, but I've seen more here. But not this much with a lot of it very wet. Thursday morning especially, with 13 inches of snow it was like trying to snow-blow mud (Friday morning's 12 inches was significantly airier).
Here's Thursday mornings shot of the upper driveway. Note the two cedar tree tops that broke off and fell due to snow weight. Both tops were intertwined and locked up with that mud-like snow. And of all the times to have dropped off my chainsaw for work! I had to part out the up-to-four-inch diameter tree tops with an axe:
By Thursday evening, full size trees were leaning with the snow weight. Here's our van then. Note the trees behind it; especially the one centered behind it:
I woke up the next morning to see that that pine (16 inches in diameter) had snapped off 25 feet above the ground (the whole thing is covered with snow, but some bare wood can be seen at the breakoff point):
Fortunately the older trees out back seemed fine (and fortunately too, all of what crashed down missed the van, missed my car, and missed the house!):
The worst damage by Friday was a very large (eight inch diameter) oak top that had fallen across the road in front of our house. This shot shows the top of our driveway (the gap on the left) with the road as blocked:
The downed branches, tree tops and trees were/are almost like a barbed wire entanglement. Here's during the storm:
The same general area this morning:
My car after a real load up:
Clearing it off (a Subaru with a Mohawk?):
Naturally the dogs loved every minute of it. Here's Charlotte digging for a thrown snowball (I can keep her busy for 20 minutes at a time this way):
Halifax just wants the frisbee:
I won't surprise anyone to learn that we love living up here. But could we do it without all of a season's snowfall at once?
