The satellite is back and internet is up and running. Finally the snow came to an end, although it looks as if it could take off again at a moments notice.
Branches and debris up and down the road but no big trees. Three fairly young trees did come down over the garage roof, but seems to have not damaged the new shakes. We'll cut them down when the snow melts a bit because we'll have to climb up a steep bank to get at the base of the trunks. Meanwhile, as I patrolled the road, Cathy, her sister and our neighbor Cindy clipped and sawed the branches off three more trees that had fallen across Cathy's sister's van. When they finished, not a single dent or scratch was to be found. Hooray!
I did feel as if I were in a war zone as I worked my way down the road. All around me big clumps of snow were dropping like bombs, out of the tall Fir and Cedar trees. Suddenly there was a loud crack and an Alder crashed just to the right of me. Not a safe place for a blind man to be....or any man, for that matter.
Total count is 14 inches. I can't remember the last time we had snow on February 29. In fact I can't remember the last February 29.
Curious Carl
----- Original Message -----From: Roger Loran BaileySent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:13 AMSubject: Re: Leap Year SnowWe are getting thunder storms today. I think this is the first February I have seen here in which it was colder than January, but for the last day of the month it suddenly warmed up for thunder storms. That is something else that I have rarely seen in February.
On 2/29/2012 11:19 AM, Carl Jarvis wrote:It's just after 8:00 this morning and the world is white. The snow began around 2:00 PM. yesterday and continued well into the night. When I tumbled out of bed I was greeted by about 8 inches of very wet snow on the deck. During the night it weighed down the branches of the huge Cedar trees behind us on the hill. We were being bombed by gigantic snow balls dropping onto the roof. One Alder tree dropped alongside the house, scraping us but doing no damage. This morning I opened the garage door and discovered that three young alders had fallen across Cathy's sister's van. Doesn't look as if they did damage, but we won't know until we carefully cut them away. Meanwhile, it's snowing like a young blizzard. A white-out. We will probably lose contact with our internet and with Dish TV.Right now I'm going to pull on boots and hike down the road to see if we could even get out if we had to.Meanwhile it's snowing harder. Can there be a White, white out?Happy Leap Year's Day!Carl Jarvis
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