Winter has hit Louisville hard already this year. We woke to 4 inches of snow yesterday - no real big deal. Except that it turned into freezing rain all day and all night last night leaving about 1" of ice on everything - power lines, roads and trees. The same trees that went through Hurricane Ike in September and created a horrible power outage mess.
Our huge magnolia tree has been damaged, as well as some other ones. The real scare is that now it is snowing again and we are supposed to get up to 3 more inches. If that isn't enough, the wind is picking up so branches are snapping like crazy.
We still have power unlike about 75,000 people in Louisville and 200,000 in the region - but as branches come down that could change at any moment. In fact, it just flickered (crap). In September, it was good weather and though it was an inconvenience being without hot water and A/C - it is a different story being without heat.
This is our huge magnolia tree on the west side of the house. I know we are fortunate that so far all the branches have fell away from the house.
This is a huge pine tree that is now laying all over our deck. One branch has broke, the others are just so heavy they are laying down.
This is the same tree from the other side.
This is a river birch tree that is so heavy with ice it is laying over the fence. The fence might actually help it from snapping completely over.
2 comments:
We've had so much ice this year; it is so nervewracking to watch those tree limbs get lower and lower as the ice builds up. It's amazing how devastating it can be...and yet so breathtakingly beautiful, in the morning.
Hope it melts by Saturday...(I know, me, me, me!)
I am still planning on it. They are calling for some more snow tonight, so I guess we'll see.
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