Robyn

Sure would like to hear how you are faring with the snowstorm. Did you get your pond winterized before this thing hit you?

DP

[I answered this yesterday, and then it wouldn't go through, and I waited until today to respond.]

Saturday, we got snow, then rain, then snow, then rain, then snow so there wasn't much accumulation because it was washed away. The ground was warm. I got a couple inches of crusty snow on my car, the roofs, cement bench, etc. The roads pretty much stayed melted. About half the grass had some snow and half had none. The pond had snow around the edges but most melted by yesterday. I have not finished winter preparations. I shook the net off yesterday, netted leaves, and repeated some 10 times to get the week's leaves off but I had to also grab a few chunks of hard snow/ice in the process. There are only traces of snow in the woods today. The whole thing was weird. I've never seen snow before December (December 6 was the first snow like 3 years in a row) but first snow is usually late December and often not until January around here.

Glad to hear it wasn't that bad for you. I thought maybe you had some of that really severe stuff. The news was showing lots of downed trees, power outages and the like.

DP

Welcome to my world.... Im only able to post this cause only thing running is fridges and this comp right now off generator. Lost power saturday and still no power as of right now. They only put a road closed sign over the down power cables down the road yesterday! My uncle drove his car under a tree for the past couple days to make it out of where he lives. They finally cleared it up for him yesterday and he got his power back last night. So hopeing for power today maybe.

Travis

I didn't know that Pennsylvania got whacked with that storm, too. Hope everything gets back to normal quickly. It can be nasty to be without power for very long.

DP

Got power back this morning! So happy. Not gonna lie, I was going crazy at night. Nothing much you can do.

Yea trees went down everywhere, the schools had closed monday and 2 hour delays for the next two. So bus drivers would not drive in the dark in the morning so they could avoid and down trees or branches. I work night shift and going to work sure kept you wide awake to avoid branches sticking out.

My brother had it so bad. Saturday, he got out around 1pm at his work. Normal drive home for him is 30mins or less. It took him 3hours to get home! He could not find any roads open to maike it home. So many backroads closed too. I know the one women from my work stayed in a hotel a night. She could not find a way to her house.

I wish i could of taken pictures of everything, but my camera was dead when i picked it up. So here is pic of one of our trees. I will say im 6'2 and can walk under the tree and not hit any branches normally, just to give you an idea of how bad the tree was bending. The top of the tree did break off and smash my butterfly bush.

From window and second photo is ground lvl.