What a wildly windy and heavy, wet snowfall (18 inches/45 cm) we endured on April 4 - it looked deceptively sublime and beautiful at first glance ...
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| Photo: Dale Schultz |
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| Photo: Dale Schultz |
... but the tree and power line damage caused by the weight of snow and pounding winds brought York county to a standstill. We lost power and Internet at around 4am that day (some cell towers weren't functioning either), so we were quite cut off and blocked in. Many healthy trees that were already in the business of producing catkins and flowers for this year's reproductive efforts, were damaged and broken, falling onto our utility lines and bringing them down all along the street and throughout our neighborhood.
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| Photo: Dale Schultz |
There was no getting out of here in the immediate future, as even the snow plows were unable to drive where trees blocked roads and power lines lay across the roads.
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| Photo: Dale Schultz |
It was sad to see so many broken trees - a total of 9 fell down across our cove, some of which lifted up sections of our boardwalk as their roots tipped up.
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| Photo: Dale Schultz |
Dale and Linus did some community tree-cutting at various spots along our street, though there were clearly some that needed qualified linesmen to tackle - we knew we'd have to wait our turn.
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| Photo: Dale Schultz |
I've never seen such extreme environmental devastation before - it looked as if a hurricane had ripped through the area, or we'd just survived the apocalypse. When the snow eventually stopped, and we'd done some clearing, the damage and destruction was even more horrific to see - it was clear we'd be without power for some time.
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