Snowmageddon, take 1
It snowed a lot. A LOT.
My little house has survived pretty well so far. The power has been out for about 8 hours and will likely be out at least through tomorrow. That means it is cold and dark…but not down the street at the Hilton where the girls and I are camped out! Here it is well-lit and toasty warm.
The yard didn’t survive quite as well. My side yard is lined with very tall cedars. They bowed under the weight of the nearly 3 feet of snow. One is lost - it fell over and broke off at the roots. I knocked snow off as many as I could this morning to save them, wading around in snow up to my hips.
Overall, I feel fortunate. A friend lost 10 large trees. Two broke through the walls of his house and more are resting on the roof. That is a great fear of mine. He has a good attitude about it, which I admire, but in the face of that kind of problem I can’t feel too bad for myself. $99 and a pet deposit solved our problems for the night.
I have a time lapse of the snow posted here. You can see my trees bending and eventually the one falls.
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