MTosi

After listening to a night of something that sounded like non stop gunshots this is what we woke up to this in our front yard -



















Fortunately no damage to the house and the cars, although there is hardly and undamaged tree in the yard. We cleared out the front by climbing the tree's, wrapping a chain around the branches, and yanking them off with the truck. Then copious amounts of chainsawing cleared out the rest. Of course there is still no power (on my laptop), and probably wont be for at least a day. In the last two pictures you can see a line across the road, and a snapped in half telephone pole upside down, with a transformer hanging off. Amazingly enough, 20 miles east and west, there is nothing close to the amount of damage.

SeanR

As bad as it could have been, it looks freaking beautiful. Great pictures.

Rinty

Natural pruning, I think they call it.

sundog

Sorry to see all the destruction, but it really is beautiful! Glad you've got power and hopefully heat!

ritzblitz

Wow that is really cool! Besides the fact that all your trees are demolished....

Bull

UGH! Looks nice but very destructive...we used to see a lot of that in Western Washington. Fortunately we only got the usual rain here.

Flying Finn

Ice is heavy indeed, many boats & ships have been sunk by heavy ice forming on their hulls.

smlporsche

We get a fair ammount of that in lieu of snow.
Great pictures.

Slantnose!

Sorry to see that happened, but the pictures make it look beautiful...

hammerwerfer

Wow. Did you not lose power?

sjanes

We had that here several years ago and some people were without power for 3 weeks (not good in winter). Ice buildup can do a lot of damage. Pretty though.

ew928

You have weak trees. Bad batch of resin mix or improper bonding of the CF sheets.
Maybe some AL strut bracing for the limbs would help.


Beautiful sight. But destructive.
Water is wonderful stuff till it solidifies on something that don't like weight.

Still remember those crazy crab fishermen on Deadliest Catch going on miserable ice breaking duty
so the upper half of the trawler doesn't get so heavy the boat flips over.


Good luck getting power back and salvaging your yard.

MTosi

The yard is actually pretty much salvaged thanks to working for like 12 hours straight, now all we need is someone who wants about 6,000lbs worth of firewood.....

Powerwise it looks like it's still going to be a few days at least, so I'm going to be milking this charge on my laptop for a while.

Mikelly

You are one furtunate guy... Think of all the leaves you will no longer have to rake/blow/bag!

Mike

John H

BTDT and it sucked being without power for 5 days.