Snow in late April

I can't believe this low won't move on.

It's still snowing...and hard at the moment.
I can still hear things breaking, and two more tops came out of some georgeous trees in bloom over the driveway.

The bird feeders in the pic below are normally at about 7' off the ground.

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I'll get a better picture tomorrow. I couldn't get any closer at the time. Too much was falling in this area.

This 'brown spot' you see in the middle is a 17' tall root ball from a nearly 80' pine. It straddles the neighbors property line and missed everything but natural fence. It's friggin HUGE!!!

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The destruction....

Mother nature put a hurt on us...that's for sure.

This morning we woke to more trees down. Not branches...but full trees.
Absolutely NOTHING was spared in my yard. EVERY ornamental tree is down for the count.

We lost power 8 hours ago. Currently the generator is running the pc, fridge, and tv.
Guess if the house goes below 60 I'll have to start a fire....AFTER locating the firewood out there...somewhere...:rolleyes:

This will take a week or more to clean up. Very unsettling to say the least.

More pics in the gallery:

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Thats rediculous Barry. I'm very sorry to hear about your yard. We have absolutely nothing on the ground here. I'm no more than 12 miles north of you.

-Mat
 
UFB!! 16" of SNOW in LATE April! :eek:

Barry, I am so sorry to see all of that damage to your trees and plants...

My Cherry trees are just finishing with their blossoms and I could not imagine my heartache at seeing mother nature destroy them like that.

I hope that you get power back on soon and a quick warm up to melt that snow and relieve the plants and trees of that heavy burden.
 
The Catawba grapes are done as well.....:(

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What really sucks now is...I am running out of dry coats and gloves. No electric, no cloths dryer. Now it's trying to rain, and I am constantly clobered by the heavy wet snow falling from the trees I am working under....

This is crazy!

I'm gonna start drinking now. It's 5 o'clock in iceland....:P
 
God Barry-

I'm just over in Rocky River, and it is so totally different here. Right now the sun's out and not a sign of snow anywhere. I can't believe the huge difference just a couple of miles makes.

So sorry about your back yard. It looked (and I'm sure will again look) beautiful. Hope the worst is over for you for now.

Kirt
 
The weather has passed and as fast as it came...it leaves.
Blue skys and sun rolling in. Temps up into the mid 40's and climbing...everything is melting.
The destruction is apparent as the snow recedes.
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The birds have returned as well. :)


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Back to the chain sawing now.
Cut trees,
Make piles,
Move piles,
Burn piles.....

Repeat.
 
The clean up is well underway and things are looking up...literally!

I added more pics to my gallery of some of the bigger destruction.

My piles are everywhere....lot's of firewood for next winter I guess.:rolleyes:

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Remind me never to ***** about New Jersey weather again.

Few weeks, real hot in the summer (upper 90's/low 100's),

Few weeks, real cold in the winter (hits the teens, but doesn't go single digits that much or for long) ,

Hurricanes every now and then (but they usually weaken by the time they hit the NY/NJ area),

Tornados, very, very rarely.

Otherwise, it ain't San Diego, but it's a lot better than some other places.
 
MarauderMark said:
Even with the snow the pool looked like it was ready to go in or did i need glasses?
Click to expand...
The pool is...was...ready.;)

The iceburgs have melted and all I need to do is re-light the pilot light.
 
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