I posted a video of it below when it started. This is what I saw later that day. I am laughing right now because Lauren wanted to go out and play in the snow when she saw it and I told her it wouldn't stick this early in the year......it did!
All through the night we heard cracking and our electricity was going in and out. My husband went out around 11:30 pm because the sky was lighting up green, blue and red. Later we found out that was the transmitters blowing up. Plus we realized that cracking was the branches of trees breaking off. One of the trees in the back yard had fallen over completely! My van was near a big tree and hje wanted ot make sure it wouldnt fall on my van.
Here is what he saw:
It's earlier than it ever has snowed so we still had our grill out, firepit, sand and water table, Umbrella tables (thank God we had brought in the umbrellas already) chairs, and hanging plants. Those branches you see there are all down oin the ground now.
Around 1 am I got up because I was freezing...the power was out...no heat.
Here is what we finally woke up to that Friday morning. That's my van. There is 22 inches of snow!
The backyard:
This is hte little girl downstairs taking a break after making a trail down the driveway:
Our mailboxes after the snow melted a little and the kids shoveled them out. The snow plows knocked them over:
These pictures are nothing compared to the damage I have seen driving aorund.
Our yard now:
That's only about and 1/8th of the branches that need to be brought up from the backyard. All you see driving down the street are branches piled high in front of their houses.
We were lucky we got our power back on by Saturday evening so only 2 days out. There still are some (11 days later) that still are without power. The weight of the wet snow on the electric lines brought many power lines down. Many have trees through their roofs and windows.
My mil and fil have a lot of things to replace in their home. The transmitter on their house sent a surge into hteir house before the power went off. Anything that was plugged in fried..........
We are very lucky that many places around the US sent many people to come help with all this! Thank you!!!
| posted by Ladiebug at 1:33 PM
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Bare had this to say:
Wow! Ya'll got a TON of snow! In a way, I'd love to have that much snow, but in another month or so! Glad all of that's gone now :0)
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Courtney had this to say:
OMG!!!! I heard about it, but seeing the pictures is totally different. We had an ice storm a few years back that caused a lot of damage like that. We were without power for about 5 days... and I was so so sick!
I'm glad things are coming back together. Good luck!-
had this to say:
I know what you mean! My parent's house was pretty bad as was my Grandmother's house! My parents lost power from Friday early EARLY AM to Saturday afternoon-- My grams until around 3PM Sunday. Some of my friends just got their power back today (Oct. 23)-- 10 days! Whoa!
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Kerri had this to say:
YIKES... have to say again that all that snow is just totally INSANE.
