Specialty Gardening: It's just too early for this nonsense..., 0 by grampapa

grampapa wrote:
I'm about 20 min north of Buffalo. It's not the 2' of snow that's the biggest problem here. Most of the area schools have been closed for the week because the power is out in much of the area. The heavy, wet snow hit the trees before they lost their leaves. It just snapped a lot of them in half. They estimated that in the city parks 90% of the trees are damaged. and when trees fall they take power lines with them. there was also a water because power was out in some of the pumping stations. things are getting better slowly, but it's already been 4 days.

I've been very lucky. only about 6 inches of snow which melted the next day. our power stayed on. we lost phone service for 24 hours, probably power outage at the switching station. of course as the show melts there is flooding and folks have no power to their sump pumps. It's a mess.

here's some pics my DDIL took. they were w/o power for 3 days.

gram ~a girl~