Last night in New England we got a massive ice storm. According to reports there are hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power this morning.
We’ve been without power for six hours now. I drove around in it this morning and there is no power for miles around. We could be in for a long outage here.
Thankfully, I got us set up with a gas generator a few years ago, fully expecting to never need it. Bitter sweet redemption.
We had some pretty major damage here at the Jangro homestead. We heard the crashing limbs all night coming down with a crack, whoosh, thud. Thankfully, the house and cars wheren’t hit. Or the power line to the house. Clean up is really going to be a drag. There are dozens of chainsaw worthy branches all over the yard.
Here are some highlights.
Front yard, massive tree lost a whole side of its limbs.
Nooo, not my new fence!
The fence post cap ended up like 30 feet away.
This gives you a pretty good idea how thick the ice was on the pine needles. Enough to snap huge limbs.
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You can view the whole set over at Flickr.
If you’ll excuse me, I need to go buy some more gasoline.
