heavy snow

been fairly warm and very dry this fall...until last night.  we have been preparing as best we could for this storm---getting firewood in order etc.

it started raining lightly last night but quickly turned into snow and it snowed most of the night and was still coming down this morning.  because it is pretty early in the season the oaks haven't lost there leaves yet so they're holding far more snow than they usually would and the weight is out at the ends of the branches instead of being distributed more evenly along the length.  the result is a lot of very large broken limbs coming down.  we were hearing (and seeing) a pretty steady cracking and crashing about an hour or so ago.

it isn't pretty out there...

couple limbs down on top of the duck yard and shed addition.  there's a fair amount of damage to the supports for the wire on the top but the main shed where the ducks sleep is undamaged and the shed addition from what i could see doesn't seem damaged either.  the duckies are spooked but unharmed.

the orchard garden and its fence have taken quite a hit.  i haven't done a thorough survey yet because when i was out the trees were actively breaking and dropping large limbs so i stayed clear.  there's a 4x4 fence post down and at least 20ft of fence pretty much smashed.  i think several of the fruit trees are probably damaged or crushed.

the driveway and west side of the property had quite a few branches come down.

this one just missed the support cable for our power pole and transformer

more storming to come.



and then i suspect we'll be pretty busy with clean up and repairs.  it's all okay.